Smailing Tour gets award

Smailing Tour gets award

JAKARTA (JP): The Asian Business Press Group, the publisher of several travel magazines such as the Travel Trade Gazette, has selected Smailing Tour as the best inbound tour operator in Indonesia.

Smailing Tour's President Rudy Akili said yesterday the Travel Awards were conducted got travel-related companies during the PATA Mart '95 in Sydney which ended on Sunday.

"The selection was made by a panel of judges which comprised executives of hotels, airlines and several other travel-related companies on the basis of performances in organizing the various components of package tours," Rudy added.

He said his company handled 18,000 inbound tourists mostly from Europe and 5,000 outbound tourists last year.

Rudy added the award was a boon for his company to further step up its inbound tour promotion and to create new kinds of tour programs.

"For example, we are now promoting exclusive tour programs for resident expatriates in the country and are preparing package tours for school children and students during the coming school holidays in June and July," he said. (vin)