A Jakarta-Guangzhou flight run by the "Garuda Indonesia" air company was resumed Tuesday after being suspended for three years.
At the arrival ceremony in Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province, a spokesman for the air company said the suspension of the flight has caused an apparent reduction in the number of Chinese tourists to Indonesia.
The spokesman said Indonesia has only issued 20,000 tourist visas to Chinese people so far this year, which is in sharp contrast with the case of its neighboring countries of Malaysia and Thailand who have attracted hundreds of thousands of Chinese tourists.
China's sustainable fast economic growth and large flight market has brought much confidence to "Garuda Indonesia", which the spokesman said will increase the present two fights between Jakarta and Guangzhou each week to three by next summer.
( People's Daily December 12, 2001)
