Perth tour package launched

Perth tour package launched

JAKARTA (JP): Garuda Indonesia launched yesterday a new tour
package to the Australian city of Perth, in an effort to boost
competitiveness of its service.

Garuda Indonesia's general manager for Jakarta, I.H. Susilo,
told a press conference yesterday that Garuda's closest
competitors running the same route include Sempati Air, Singapore
Airlines and Qantas, which fly to Perth through Indonesia three
to five times a week.

Susilo, who was accompanied by the Australian Tourist
Commission's regional director for Asia, Greg McAllan, and the
Western Australian Tourism Commission's director for
international sales and marketing, Rick Thomas, said the package
would include tours to Underwater World & Dolphins, or Mariners
Cruise and Coach in Freemantle.

The package, he said, would be introduced through Garuda's
offices in Jakarta, Bogor and Bandung, as well as travel agents
and sub-agents.

A total of 130,000 Indonesians are expected to visit Australia
this year, as compared to 105,000 last year. It has been recorded
that Perth is the tourist destination of 27.4 percent of
Indonesians visiting Australia, the second after Sydney, at 33.2
percent. (pwn)