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(PRWEB) December 03, 2011

Australias leading Asia travel specialist, Travel Indochina, has released its 2012-2013 China, Tibet and Hong Kong Handmade Holidays brochure.

The 2012-2013 holiday brochure features lead-in price reductions to get 2012 off to a flying start, with winter wonderland hotel rates that are as much as 50% lower than high season prices*.

Based on the philosophy of Handmade from local knowledge, handpicked by Travel Indochina, the brochure features land only and flight inclusive prices for the travel essentials, and allows agents the ability to tailor itineraries for their clients specific needs.

Pricing remains competitive throughout the brochure, with all key products equal to or lower priced than that of competitors.

Travel Indochina Managing Director, Paul Hole, says that with scenery and culture that changes dramatically across China, each visit exposes something new and wondrous.

Covering such a vast and divergent land, China is a country that deserves to be visited more than once, and in many different ways, says Paul.

China boasts one of the worlds most extensive and efficient train networks whether in the comfort of the traditional soft sleeper berths or the newest high speed trains that whisk one across the country in record time. Either way, theyre a great way to experience the country. Alternatively, theres the option of a Yangtze river cruise, including our latest offering the 5-star Century Cruises, for a completely different glimpse of daily life.

New product in the 2012-2013 brochure includes:

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Fair Tax on Flying Petition by UK Travel Industry

Earlier this month, officials and heads of the UK travel industry announced that it was joining ABTA’s Fair Tax on Flying campaign.

The campaign has been presented to the Chancellor, George Osborne, ahead of the March budget.

The campaign that calls for the Government to stop rises in aviation tax in the UK, in line with other European countries that have stopped similar taxes. Other such European countries have stopped aviation tax increases in a bid to avoid any further negative impact on their own travel industry in difficult economic times. So why not the UK?

It seems the UK Government is hell bent on continually slapping taxes on the travel industry. Yet, it seems somewhat contradictory given that in actual fact, Prime Minister, David Cameron, said that the travel industry was highlighted as one of five top industries for growth.

Yet, surely, in a bid to make more of us travel; whether business or pleasure, surely constant increases in taxes, not to mention fares on the increase due to soaring fuel prices; this will actually deter would-be passengers to travel instead of encouraging them. Thus, having a negative effect on the industry as less and less of us travel. Where will the growth come from then if we avoid travelling as much, or at all?

It is very worrying when, in recent months the travel industry has seen a real boom in travel, after several years of airlines going bust left, right and centre and passengers being stranded at home and abroad. A genuine growth has been reported by major and provincial airports across the country, as well as many UK airlines reporting passenger increases. Any unfair tax increases threaten this long awaited growth.

First introduced in 1994, Air Passenger Duty has risen by a staggering 2600%! These increases far outweigh those increases in other European countries. From this tax, the Government will expect to raise a staggering £2.2 billion in 2011. If this is not enough, by introducing yet more increases, by 2015 the Government expect to raise an additional £1.4 billion, taking the total of air travellers’ taxes to over £3.6 billion a year!

The differences in tax values have been calculated and the price differences for UK travellers verse those travelling in European are hugely, and unfairly many think, different. The Fair Tax on Flying campaign has identified that a UK family of four flying to Florida will pay aviation tax of £240! If the same family flew to Australia they would be slapped with a whooping £340 in tax. However, our French counterparts would pay a mere £15 to each of these destinations, whilst an Irish family would pay a minimal £11.

As the travel industry holds its breathe until the budget, we all have to hope that the Government will give the travel industry a break. Not just to recover and successfully claw back to recovery but also to be allowed to grow, as Mr Cameron predicts and of course wants!

Sometimes Mr Prime Minister you have to make less profit per purchase to ultimately make more purchases, that then equates to more overall profit. Not more profit, yet less sales! Fingers crossed…

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