Belgian tour operator 'Joker Touris

[kwia@xxxxxx]

16-09-1997 JOKER TOURISM CANCELS BURMA TOURS

Yesterday we received a letter from Belgian tour operator 'Joker Tourism' in
which it states not to organise tours to Burma anymore. Last friday Joker
Tourism, together with the travellers' guides organisation 'Pik-Nik ', took
the decision not to organise any travel to Burma in 1998.

Joker Tourism is the market leader in Belgium in the field of the
'alternative and adventurous tourism'. Joker Tourism is the second Belgian
company that stops doing business in Burma following the call for a boycott
by the Burmese democratic opposition. In October 1996 the Brewery group
Interbrew (Stella Artois, Jupiler, Labatt Ice Beer, ...) cut all economic
links with Burma.

Last month the Burma Group KWIA launched a campaign directed to all Belgian
tour operators to stop organising and selling Burma tours.
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KWIA Steungroep Inheemse Volkeren - KWIA Supportgroup for Indigenous peoples
Werkgroep Birma - Burma Group
Breughelstraat 31-33, 2018 Antwerpen, BELGIUM
Tel. 32-3-2188488     32-3-2377615
Fax  32-3-2304540
KWIA@xxxxxx