What Of The Tour
pp. 34-35 · Read in the full issue
Potential In P-NG
By a Staff Writer
Travelling across Papua an New Guinea in May, I got th impression that all classes especially the traders—are eage to develop tourism, but show singular lack of understanding c the difficulties in the way.
PAPUA and New Guinea hav great tourist potential—probs the best in the South Pacific Islai If facilities were provided, and publicity drum beaten lor enough, there could be a grov stream of moneyed sightseers pas: through the Territory from April October.
But this kind of traveller wi personal comfort. He gets it in e\ country that goes after the valuj tourist trade.
Nothing less than hotel rooms air conditioning and private sho and toilet will do for this class traveller; and the Territory he owners are only just beginning introduce such amenities.
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There are hotels now in Territory centre. Accommodai in some still is crude; but majority of owners are striving higher standards. Some have a 1 way to go. Investment capital the prime need.
Transportation is in a be category. The planes which c£ people in from outside are fi class—but travellers still must i the horror of the over-night fli from Australia to Port Moresby.
Internal air services are good; there seem to be plenty of me owners equipped to provide surl transport, when it is called for.
Mr. Noel Maloney, of I Moresby, is at the head of a c< mittee of Territory residents wl is trying to encourage tourism; nothing substantial can be done u it becomes possible to send organ!
Hotels c ti Port Moresby r 2 Boroko (P. Moresby) 1 Rabaul 2 Lae 1 Madang 1 Wewak, Sepik 2 Goroka 1 Mt. Hagen 1 Kainantu Kavieng 1 Bulolo 1 Wau 1 15
es of overseas sightseers through la and New Guinea, with an ranee that they will receive the aides to which they are aecus :d. ►me hot-air merchants—especial —have been through 3, trying to bring the local ents into various enterprises ;ned to tie P-NG’s tourist poten to the world’s growing hunger new kinds of travel. But they now regarded with suspicion, example, a plan to build a ry hotel near Port Moresby (the st attractions of which are very ed) did not win local support use, as is plain to anyone, what ceded is a chain of first-class s, extending from Moresby to half-dozen other important es in P-NG. le attitude of the Administra towards this matter is im mt. The provision of good s calls for huge capital invest . Investors are not going into Territory, in this field, unless have an official assurance that their investment will be pro- J against political changes which 1 destroy the security of the try; and (b) the Administra will actively help this form of prise, both with goodwill and monetary grants. has been done in other coun and it could be done in P-NG the Australian Government ' wants a tourist industry and te enterprise in the Territory, e is considerable doubt about at present.
New Guinea tourist will come across local [?] at every turn in the road. These [?] figures are on the approaches to a Highlands bridge.