Word: sarawak
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...conclusion in the World Travel Organization's annual report receives a resounding endorsement from executives on the ground: "Tourists shifted their travel habits during this period of time; they chose closer and less-expensive destinations." Philip Yong, a leading tour operator in Sarawak, says, "If it weren't for domestic travelers from peninsular Malaysia, [hotel occupancy] would be in single digits here." Gert Kopera, general manager of the Dharmawangsa, the Rosewood-operated boutique hotel in Jakarta, predicts that "hotels at the top end, like us, will do all right and so will the hotels at the bottom." In other words...
...Finally, the two men parted and Manser headed for Sarawak. His first intended stop: the holy mountain of Batu Lawi. After failing to climb it the first time, he told friends, he was determined to reach the summit...
...Zermatt action was an apt precursor to Manser's last stunt, a 1999 flight above the Sarawak capital of Kuching in a motorized hang glider. It was another desperate move by a man who was increasingly becoming irrelevant. His numerous letters to the Sarawak Chief Minister Taib Mahmud pleading reconciliation or offering to fund a mobile dental clinic for the Penan were ignored...
...Manser decided that he would make one last trip to see his Penan friends. "His goodbye was very different from other times," says Vosscer. "It was very open ended about how long he would have to stay in Sarawak. He said he was very tired...
...Manser and John Kuenzli, the administrator of the Bruno Manser Foundation, spent several months in desultory travel around northern Kalimantan, gradually approaching the route that Manser would follow into Sarawak. They talked of various actions Manser might take when he came out, Kuenzli says, but never resolved anything. None of the schemes they discussed?bringing a group of Penan to confront Malaysian politicians at an international timber conference, for example?seemed sufficiently dramatic or effective...