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Journos head to City via Lion Air flight

One week after Lion Air resumed Jakarta-Singapore-HCM City service, the Indonesian ‘hybrid’ carrier organised a familiarisation (FAM) trip to Hcm city for 12 journalists from Jakarta and eight from Singapore to introduce HCM City’s attractions to Indonesian and Singaporean tourists.
The journalists are from mainstream and popular magazines, according to Chandran Rama Muthy, Lion Air’s senior manager of Sales and Marketing.

During their four-day visit to Viet nam the group got a taste of the region by shopping at night markets, navigating the city’s frenetic streets, induldging in Vietnamese coffee, and visiting the Cu Chi guerrilla warfare tunnels.

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Journos head to City via Lion Air flight

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