German tour operator cancel trips to Indonesia<\/p>\n
Agencies, Frankfurt<\/p>\n
German tourism operator TUI AG has canceled all trips to the
\nIndonesian island of Bali this week following Saturday's
\nsuspected terrorist attacks, German news agency VWD reported
\nMonday.<\/p>\n
Other German tourism operators, such as Thomas Cook AG and
\nDeutsche Lufthansa AG, said their services were unchanged given a
\nlack of cancellations by customers as of Monday morning.<\/p>\n
Thomas Cook said its call-center hadn't reported trip
\ncancellations, spokesman Markus Ruediger said. Of the company's
\n500 customers now in Bali, none had yet decided to leave the
\nisland, he said.<\/p>\n
Of the 100 Thomas Cook customers who booked their trips from
\nGermany, one person was missing and one injured, Ruediger said.<\/p>\n
Thomas Cook, which is jointly owned by Lufthansa and
\nKarstadtQuelle AG, hasn't canceled trips to Bali, but is offering
\nfree cancellations or rebookings to all customers set to travel
\nthrough the end of the month.<\/p>\n
TUI canceled all its trips to Bali this week, promising to
\neither give customers their money back or book them on trips to
\nother vacation destinations.<\/p>\n
Of about 200 Germans who were on TUI vacations in Bali when
\nthe bombs went off, four decided to cut short their trips and
\nwere flown home, news agency VWD reported.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Greece Monday warned its nationals to avoid
\ntraveling to Indonesia and the tourist island of Bali.<\/p>\n
Government spokesman Christos Protopappas said a Greek tourist
\nwas injured in Saturday's bombing and at least one Greek with a
\nSwedish passport was missing.<\/p>\n
Separately, Lonely Planet guides, the bible of adventurous
\nglobetrotting, urged travelers Monday to avoid Bali.<\/p>\n
\"Tourists are advised to delay any trips to Bali until more is
\nknown about the recent attacks,\" it said.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, organizers had decided to move an international
\nenergy conference from Bali to Singapore.<\/p>\n
The Seventh Annual Condensate Forum on Oct. 24-25 has been
\nshifted to Singapore for the safety of the 100 delegates expected
\nto attend, said Vimla Mulchand, director of the Singapore-based
\norganizer, Conference Connection Administrators.<\/p>\n
Mulchand said it was \"the best solution, since most of the
\ninternational delegates were going to fly to Bali via Singapore.\"<\/p>",
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