Nine moluccans join Garuda`s family trip to Holland

Antara News, Sunday, October 17, 2010 22:15 WIB

Ambon, Maluku (ANTARA News) - Nine people from Maluku joined a Family Trip program sponsored by national flag carrier Garuda Indonesia to the Netherlands from October 17 to 20, 2010.

"The nine people from Maluku who joined the Family Trip left for the Netherlands via Jakarta on Sunday," Ambon branch of Garuda Indonesia marketing spokesman Nazrudin said here on Sunday morning.

Nazrudin said Garuda provided representatives from culture and tourism office, a Garuda partner company, and media in Maluku with nine free tickets for the Family Trip to the Netherlands.

"But unfortunately Maluku Culture and Tourism Office chairperson Florence Sahusilawane does not get a free ticket to Holland because she is at present in a training program," Nazrudin said.

Nazruddin said Garuda Indonesia organized the Family Trip program to the Netherlands for the nine participants to promote Maluku tourism potentials to West European tourists.

"Following the reopening of Garuda`s Jakarta-Amsterdam and Jakarta-Ambon routes in June this year, the Family Trip program is expected to contribute to tourism development in Indonesia in general and Maluku in particular," Nazrudin said.

Therefore he hoped the invited Molucans would use the opportunity while in the Netherlands to promote Maluku tourism potentials as well as convincing Dutch citizens of Maluku origin that the Indonesian province is absolutely safe for visitors.

"The Garuda Indonesia flight schedule is made flexible to enable the Family Trip participants to make every effort to familiarize Maluku tourism as optimally as possible to West European tourists," Nazrudin said..