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On 2010, Garuda will use Airbus for upgrading their services to the customers. This plane will use to transport passengers from Beijing-Jakarta and vice versa.

Garuda Manager Sentot Mujiono said this in Beijing. He also said, the comfort of passengers is getting priority since the competition is quite tight. He optimistic that Garuda can achieve the target since Garuda gives more services.

He also disagree with claim that Garuda ticket is more expensive than other airlines. He said the passenger will get benefit in the departure and arrival time, in the same day, so they don’t have to wait in Soekarno Hatta airport in the night.

FYI, Garuda route for Beijing-Jakarta is available on Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday. For Jakarta-Beijing, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.

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Recently, swine flu became a terror that spread around the world. This terror is quite scary many countries, especially countries which depend on tourism for their income. Maybe Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia can be mentioned as them.

Well, this flu was found in Mexico, about a month ago. Read full entry »

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Suvarnabhumi is a international airport in Bangkok, Thailand. If we compare with our international airport, Soekarno Hatta, many good things will you find there, such as:

• Luxurious
• Huge
• Comfort
• No ticket scalper
• No illegal taxi
• Discipline
• No “airport tax”

Based on Airports Council International November 2008, Suvarnabhumi is 18th busies airport in the world, 4th in Asia, and 1st in ASEAN, with 36.3million passengers a year. Read full entry »

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The Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report 2009 release a statement about world tourism. From the statement, Indonesia has position in 81th, meanwhile Singapore is in top ten. The data were collected from any resources, include from business practicals.

The Top Ten list os Switzerland, Austria, German, France, Canada, Spain, Swedia, US, Australia, and Singapore.

For ASEAN countries, the position is Singapore for the first, Malaysia (32 in the world), Thailand (39), Brunei Darussalam (69), Indonesia (81), Filipina (86), Vietnam (89), and Cambodia (108). Read full entry »

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If in Japan we can find Japan Fashion Week, right now we can find similar event but in different place, Hongkong Fashion Week. This event was held on Wednesday.

There are many designers involved and took participate there, such as An Yoon Jung, Over Rolls house mode, and Ane Wei. They offered a simple design fashion in this event.

An Yoon’s design based on 60’s. Over Rolls house made, who came from South Korea, showed their wool fashion designs.

Hmmm, fashion show can be a good destination. news from here

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Well, not only Singapore who became a victim of NPWP, but Malaka as well. Malaka governor, Mohd Ali Rustam, said new fiscal policy from Indonesia made an effect, the tourist from Indonesia decreased whereas Chinese New Year (Imlek) will coming soon, and Malaka had became a destination to celebrate Imlek for Indonesia tourists. Read full entry »

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The progressive of period sometimes sacrifice some things around us. One of them is culture. Melayu drum, as one of traditional music instrument, is one of culture part that being a victim, since these days, many people prefer play a modern music instrument.

However, we can find many persons still take care of this traditional music instrument. Yusuf is one of them. Read full entry »

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Well, since the government apply the penalty for anyone who doesn’thave NPWP (tax id), the visiting to Singapore, from Sekupang International Harbour , is decreasing up to 75%. Zulkifli, the ticketing coordinator said this decreasing can be seen, since the normal visiting is about 500 tourists, but last week, there are only 275 visitors on last Friday and 215 visitors on last Thursday.

The fine, Rp 1 million, will be applied to anyone who doesn’t have NPWP when they want to go abroad. Well, actually it’s not a fine, it’s the fiscal fee. In other word, anyone who has NPWP will free of fiscal fee. Read full entry »

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Recently, China government promoted their currency, Yuan, as a global currency. They started it with allowed their neighbour district, Hongkong and Macao, to use Yuan as payment transaction. The next move is using Yuan when make a deal with ASEAN country.

This movement has many benefits, such as help China’s export, decrease rate fluctuation, especially for facing the economic global crisis recently. Read full entry »

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Yesterday, Garuda officially open new flight traffic, Denpasar - Shanghai. This action to anticipate the increasing of tourist from China to Bali. The opening means, the tourists from China will not transit in Jakarta, as they are used to be, but starting Dec 20 2008, they can flight direct to Denpasar.

The China tourists are very interesting with Bali, even the global crisis is still happen. Read full entry »

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