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...TRAVEL The End of Long Haul Travel...
...Throughout the region, once booming businesses catering to long-haul travelers stand empty. Waiters at smart restaurants in Singapore, sarong salesmen in Bali, bar girls in Pattaya?all sit idle, hoping enough customers will straggle in for them to survive another deathly quiet season. Hong Kong is meanwhile gasping for oxygen, enduring its worst slump in leisure travel in anyone's memory. Flights are full only because carriers have cut back heavily on the frequency of service and cancelled many routes altogether...
...TRAVEL The End of Long Haul Travel...
...Just a generation ago, long-haul travel belonged almost exclusively to the rich or the most diligent of savers. For ordinary, middle-class wage earners, a trip beyond the nearest continent was a once-in-a-lifetime splurge?something aspired to as the crowning extravagance in a modest career. Then in the 1980s, an era of cataclysmic change in the airline industry, overseas fares came tumbling down. As air traffic grew, hotels were built at a far quicker pace than before. Asian tourism boards launched huge, well-funded publicity campaigns, and Western travel media obliged with extensive coverage...
...TRAVEL The End of Long Haul Travel...