Wants To Build

[?] Tels In Moresby

By a Staff Reporter

n ambitious plan to tap the

uched tourist potential of P with a chain of motels and -yourself cars is being in

haled by Mr. Noel Maloney,

man of the newly formed j Tourist and Travel Asso m who is spending some hs in Australia.

G has no motels at the oment, but Mr. Maloney said fdney in January that one ■ motel organisation in Aus had expressed interest in the le. plan is for tourists to be to the Territory by Ansett or TAA, stay overnight at a in Port Moresby, then set out ive-yourself cars to cover the and scenery round about, m there the tourists could fly e, stay at another motel and ip a drive-yourself car for the ;ly run to Bulolo. Or else set *om Lae for Goroka, staying ght at a motel at Kainantu, len later on to Mount Hagen, ing to Goroka. 3 they could leave the hire id fly back to Moresby or on to ig or Rabaul, and arrange r trips.

Winter Travel season for this travel scheme extend over Australia’s colder s, May to November, said Mr. ey. whole plan would be offered rists as a “package deal” with r air travel, hire car and motel modation included, aid the motels would have to dern, two room or four room air conditioned, with refrig > and hot water jugs and •s.

Each suite should have a servant Mr. Maloney said cost of the publicity which would be required JL 6 *' the tourists moving north could be met by “everyone who benefits”. This included the motel operators, the Administration, busi ness people and primary producers Anyone in business in the Terri tory would benefit from an influx of tourists, he said.

In five or six years a properly organised tourist industry in the Territory could make that area a mecca for tourists from Australia. . A t present the man in the street in Australia was extremely ignorant of what kind of country the Terri tory was. Day-to-day newspaper reports did not put it into per spective.

Mr. Maloney said that something that would appeal to the average tourist was the fact that two or more people could share the cost of hiring a car or staying at a motel. /

Wide interests

Mr. Maloney himself has been in the Territory since 1948, when he started business as a customs and shipping agent on his deferred pay of £250 from the RAAF.

He later began coastal trading with a boat, was the Territory’s first licensed auctioneer, and then started some trade stores. he opened Maloney’s Building in one of Port Moresby’s mam streets, and these days he also has interests in real estate.

Mr. Noel Maloney.