DENPASAR (indo.com): The Bali tourism components and the Garuda Indonesia Airlines have agreed to jointly offer an incentive tourism package for European visitors in a bid to improve the European market.

The agreement was reached in a recent meeting attended by representatives of Bali tourism associations, including the PHRI (Indonesian Hotels and Restaurants Association), Bali Village, Asita (Association of the Indonesian Tours & Travel Agencies), HPI, Sipoco, Gahawisri, Casagrande and Pawiba and Garuda Indonesia's Vice President to Planning and Marketing Marco Umbas.

The incentive tourism package is aimed at improving the number of arrivals of European travelers.

The Chairman of PHRI Bali, Gde Wiratha, said that the Association of Hotels and Restaurants would provide 100,000 room nights, valued at Rp350 billion over two years.

Meanwhile, Ida Bagus Ngurah Wijaya, chairman of Bali Village, said that the incentive tourism package program will be launched to coincide with the international tourism promo, the International Torismus Borse in Berlin, Germany on March 16, 2002. The actual form of the tourism incentive package program has yet been decided.