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CATHAY Pacific Airways' crew is aiming to emulate the winning ways of the Gurkha soldiers in today's tourism walkathon.

  The Gurkhas are consistent tearaway winners of the gruelling annual MacLehose Trail Walk, and although the tourism industry's own charity walk is only one year old, the airline is finding its own way of dominating this event.

   In last year's Tourism Walks for Charity, Cathay Pacific topped the event in two ways.

   The airline entered the largest number of walkers into the event, among all the corporate participants, and also raised the most money.

   Cathay Pacific hopes to add to these achievements today by becoming the first to finish the walk.

  Out of more than 1,000 people who took part in last year's fund-raiser, 180 came from Cathay Pacific.

  Today, another 70 staff members will take part and Cathay Pacific is confident about also raising more money.

  Last year, the Cathay Pacific walkers raised about $1,000 per head for a total of $180,000 - nearly one-sixth of the $1.1 million raised from the event.

  Cathay Pacific said it expects to finish first this year because of so many of its employees competing.

  Cathay Pacific walk organiser and general manager for Hong Kong and southern China division Raymond Yuen said he was confident of the airline completing the hat-trick.

  ''We are most likely to be number one,'' he said.

   He said Cathay's secret for success in the event was motivation.

  As an incentive to employees to participate and raise money, all staff get a Cathay uniform and a meal coupon.

  To prepare for today's two-kilometre walk, Cathay staff have made full use of the company's recreation and sporting facilities.

  Cathay's main rival is expected to be American Express, which last year matched the airline's fund-raising efforts dollar for dollar once the figures were known, and is keen to do so again this time.

  Mr Yuen said Cathay believed it was important to take an active part in the charity event, because the airline wanted to demonstrate its commitment to tourism and to Hong Kong.

  The airline had taken part in a number of other tourism events aimed mainly at community projects.

        Last month, the company organised a circus school for children in Tsim Sha Tsui and it had also taken senior citizens who had never flown before inside an aircraft.



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