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Many merchanment in Thailand loves Indonesian tourists. Why? They said, Indonesian tourist are quite generous to spend their money.

One destination that became Indonesian tourists favorite is Thailand former palace. Other destination is leather craft in Gems Gallery Internasional Manufacture Co, Ltd, Phayatahai Bangkok. Even the price is quite expensive, Indonesian tourists never think about it.

You can see, if you were there, the bags and luggage of Indonesian tourists are more than other tourists. ;-)

So, do you want to visit Thailand?

News and pic from here.

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There are many ways to promote Indonesia. Held an exhibition is one of them. But, what will be exposed on that exhibition?

Since Indonesia has many things to be shown, batik maybe the easiest part to be shown on exhibition. Well, there are many various batik in Indonesia so I’m sure batik has a great potential.

We can see the potential of batik when we saw the participants (from Indonesia, of course) which participate in batik exhibition in Singapore recently. There are 13 province sent their delegations for it. Jakarta, Central Java, Yogyakarta, are some provinces which took contribution.

During the batik exhibition, Indonesia participants not only display batik but also ask audience to involve in create batik. Well, the message is quite clear, if the audiences are interested, they will come to Indonesia directly.

Hmm…nice try! :-)

Pic from here.

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Well, Singapore will held again Singapore Sun Festival, one of annual festivals in Singapore. You can visit this festival on Oct 3-12 2009. More than 100 artists will show to us their best performance in more than 90 events. So, I’m sure your day will be a busy day. ;-)

This festival will be opened by an attractive event in Esplanade Concert Hall. Many ballerines will hypnotize you by their dancing.

There are also some ‘First’ events in this festival, such as:

Performance by opera star, Angela Gheorghiu (October 10) with Marius Manea in tenor.

Some movies made by Joan Chen will be run in indoor movie building. There will be 8 unique movies which had been chosen by Joan Chen.

Deepak Chopra will also attend this festival. Deepak Chopra is well known as writer and a spiritual consultant.

A genius French chef, Thierry Marx will cook for you and make your tongue only can say “Delicious” than other words, heheh.

And many more

So, are you ready for take participation in this festival?

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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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