Post office sells air ticket

Post office sells air ticket

JAKARTA (JP): The Yogyakarta branch of the state-run postal
service company PT Pos Indonesia is now selling airline tickets
in a bid to promote tourism in the city and its surrounding
areas.

"We have now opened an air ticketing counter in cooperation
with a local travel agent to support the tourism industry and to
expand our public services," the chief of the branch, Tito
Soewito, told Antara in Yogyakarta Saturday.

He said that he was optimistic about the ticketing business
because the neighboring city of Surakarta will soon become an
international gate after the Adisumarmo airport is renovated.

Yogyakarta is a well-known tourist destination where the
palaces of Hamengkubuwono and Paku Alam are situated. The other
tourist sites of the city and its suburbs include the hilly Kali
Urang tourist resort, a silver handicraft center, the Parang
Tritis beach, the Prambanan temple and the most popular temple in
the world, Borobudur.

Yogyakarta is also called the city of education for its many
universities.

The neighboring city of Surakarta, which is popularly called
Solo, inherited the Mangkunegaran and Mangkubumi palaces as well
as Batik production. Solo is also dressing up itself to become
another tourist destination.(kod)