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...industry today [Aug. 11]. One cannot, however, write off the promising future of long-distance travel to Asia. Of the 21 major Asian-destination countries, 15 experienced increased arrivals in 2002 compared with 2000. It is worth using 2000 as a benchmark, because it was a record year for tourism to and within the Asia-Pacific region, as well as the last year relatively free of tourism-targeted terrorist attacks and other negative influences on our industry. Over the past 20 years, the global travel industry has faced events and catastrophes ranging from terrorism and disease to economic doldrums...
...Hyperbolic promotions to lure back tourists are de rigueur in Asia these days?from Malaysian shopping carnivals to Hong Kong air ticket giveaways. And the Koh Samui Carnival is an example of the kind of latter-day tourism twaddle that should never have made it past a boardroom brainstorm...
...This hasn't escaped the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT), which held a "Samui summit" last month where Cabinet ministers and TAT officials discussed how best to solve environmental and image problems. "Everyone has been told to go away and get a list of ideas together," a spokesman said. Not that the carnival can be considered a model for recovery. They may be targeting families, and there is indeed a decrease in the dreadlocked human detritus that normally washes up after full-moon ecstasy parties on nearby Koh Phangan. But Koh Samui's traditional customers may be hard to ditch...
...South Korea could have had more burdens to bear. Chung, one of eight sons of the late Chung Ju Yung, pioneering chaebolist and founder of the Hyundai group, had been demoted in the Hyundai empire from group chairman to overseer of Hyundai Asan, the subsidiary that specializes in tourism and industrial investments in North Korea. He was on trial for his still-murky role in the clandestine transfer of at least $450 million to North Korea in 2000, money allegedly used to secure North Korean participation in a groundbreaking inter-Korean summit that year. (The Hyundai group is alleged...
...point: the bridge could be the key to transforming the western delta. By cutting travel time between Hong Kong and Zhuhai by 30 minutes, Tuan estimates the bridge could boost the western delta's GDP by more than $11 billion and Hong Kong's by more than $2 billion. Tourism will benefit as well. Last week, China said it would allow Guangdong residents to visit Hong Kong without having to join a group tour, and by the time the bridge is complete, Hong Kong Disneyland will be operational and Macau may have a new crop of Las Vegas-style casinos...