New Delhi (ANTARA News) - Indonesia`s national flag-carrier Garuda is to start a direct flight service between Medan in North Sumatra and Chennai in India next June, a spokesman said.
"After we have completed the process to obtain permission from the Indian government, we hope to begin flying the route in June," Garuda`s vice director for networks management, Risnaldi, said here.
Speaking to the press on the sidelines of a partnership conference organized by the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) in New Delhi, he said more than 83,000 Indian tourists visited Indonesia in 2007, an increase of 54 percent from 2006. Some 10 million Indians travel abroad every year.
Meanwhile, the director of overseas promotions at Indonesia`s culture and tourism ministry, Tatang Rukhiyat, said his department would open two representative offices in India, namely in New Delhi and Mumbai, to facilitate promotion of Indonesian tourism.
The two representative offices would begin operating next February.
The Indonesian government had also made its visa-on-arrival facility available to Indian nationals to encourage the Indian tourist flow to Indonesia, Tatang said.
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