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...travelers - 18.4 million, up 4% on 2000 - are expected to head abroad this year. A reshuffling of midweek public holidays means an additional eight three-day breaks - and many of these will be spent on short package trips elsewhere in Asia. Current favorite destinations are South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Bali and Hong Kong. "Every major hotel has someone assigned to specifically service the Japanese," says a guest relations coordinator at a five-star Bangkok hotel. "They are a very big market...
...meet and get angry when they do not understand. If we go abroad, that is. Very few Americans make it overseas, and if they do, they go to London or Paris, maybe Rome. Those on more expansive budgets perhaps relax at a resort in Phuket (Thailand) or in Bali (Indonesia) where western food is served alongside western beds, western toilets, western people and western consumer-oriented service. Americans leave relaxed but totally ignorant about Thai or Indonesian language and culture...
...hosts of the new reality show now or never run through the streets of German cities with camera crews, stopping people at random to ask if they would like a free plane ticket to an exotic destination like Bali. The catch is the plane is leaving in two hours, they have to go alone and they must race an unknown number of other contestants to get to the airport ticket counter first. The audience competes for a second free ticket by downloading street maps and other information from the Web to become the first to figure out which contestant will...
...West Sumatrans hope their success could lead to the resurrection of traditional systems that once existed in Aceh, the Maluku Islands, Bali and other places. "The key is not orders," says Anwar Zainal Abidin, a respected elder and former government official. "Things get done because of a collective spirit...
...Cigarette smokers--so they can slap them and steal their smokes b) The terrible bandit Veerappan c) Fulfillment d) The best monkey strip clubs from Bali to Bhopal...