Govt urged to rethink flight plan<\/p>\n
YOGYAKARTA: Gadjah Mada University's Center for Tourism Studies
\ncalled on the Yogyakarta provincial government on Thursday to
\nreconsider its plan to change the Yogyakarta-Singapore and
\nYogyakarta-Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) flight schedules, arguing that
\nthe plan would hurt tourism in the area.<\/p>\n
Earlier this week, Yogyakarta's provincial secretary Bambang
\nSusanto Priyohadi announced the provincial government was
\nplanning to increase the flight frequency to both cities from
\nthree times a week to daily.<\/p>\n
The government was also considering changing the flight
\nschedules to allow same-day return flights from Singapore and
\nKuala Lumpur, with the flights leaving Yogyakarta in the evening
\nand returning to the city the next morning.<\/p>\n
\"Increasing the frequency of the flights is an innovative
\nbreakthrough, but changing the schedules has the potential of
\nencouraging tourists from both countries not to spend a night in
\nYogyakarta because they can flight back on the same day in the
\nevening,\" center director Hendrie Adji Kusworo said.<\/p>\n
If this was the case, Adji said, tourist-related businesses in
\nthe city, especially hotels and motels, would lose out.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Yogyakarta tourists who wanted a one-day visit to
\neither Singapore or Kuala Lumpur, would be forced to spend at
\nleast one night overseas because there would be no evening return
\nflight, he said.<\/p>\n
\"This would mean that not just the tourism industry in
\nYogyakarta would be disadvantaged but that Yogyakarta tourists
\nwould also be adversely affected.\" --JP<\/p>",
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