INDONESIA - The Difference Between Self-Interest and Selfishness

Balidiscovery.com, (12/30/2006)

As a rule of thumb, travelers prefer direct flights to their holiday destinations. Barring that, their overwhelming preference is to arrive at their destination using only one airline with a minimum of intermediate stops. Similarly, on the short-to-medium haul routes from the increasingly import Asia-Pacific markets holidaymakers insist on the quickest and most-direct route to Bali, particularly when a stay on the island is for only for a very short 4 or 5 nights.On a recent Bali "road show" to the People's Republic of China, led by the Chairman of the Bali Chapter of the Association of Tour and Travel Agents (ASITA), Al Purwa, the familiar explanation of "more air access" was the standard response when the Balinese delegation ask what could be done to tap into the huge pool of outbound travel from China. Also during the China trip, proven partners in developing Bali tourism, such as Singapore Airlines (SIA), renewed their pledge to support to Bali in helping to grow Bali-bound traffic via their world-wide network, including mainland China.

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