SINGAPORE Airlines will operate more non-smoking flights from this weekend. On Sunday, all services between Singapore and China and between Singapore and New Zealand, will become non-smoking. SIA operates 16 weekly flights to China and six to New Zealand.
In addition, SIA's Singapore-Taipei-Seoul service, which operates five times weekly, will be smoke-free. With SIA's wholly-owned subsidiary, SilkAir, operating smoke-free flights on all its services, 79 per cent of the SIA Group's network will by the weekend be smokeless.
THIS week a delegation of 10 Australian travel industry representatives is visiting Guangzhou, Shanghai and Beijing in an effort to boost tourism Down Under from China.
''China will become a large and important market for Australia within the next decade,'' said John Morse, regional director (Asia) for the Australian Tourist Commission.
''There is already considerable Chinese interest in Australia as a business and investment destination, and there is no doubt that tourism development will follow.'' More than 22,000 mainland Chinese visited Australia last year, a rise of more than 20 per cent over 1992.
MORE than 100 travel agents from Hong Kong have been in Dubai for the 16th International Chinese Tourist Association Overseas Convention.