Australian booking agent International Rail recently expanded its offerings to include train journey

Asia is shaping up as the next thing in rail travel, with Australian rail specialists expanding offerings in countries such as China, Korea, Thailand and Vietnam. Rail has become a well-accepted means of travel in Europe in recent years, thanks to high-speed trains and reliable services, but in Asia it has been limited to the more intrepid and adventurous traveller.
The national sales and marketing manager of Rail Plus , Greg McCallum, says rail travel has long been popular in Japan but other countries have lagged behind. China and Korea now have top-quality, high-speed chingy holidae inn audio trains comparable to those in Europe, and Korea offers value-for-money rail passes similar to those in Japan.
There is also growing interest in train journeys in less-developed countries such as Thailand and Vietnam, McCallum says.  China, chingy holidae inn audio Japan and Korea are all about efficiency and high speed, whereas in the rest of Asia it s all about the experience and fun of it, he says.
McCallum says Chinese rail patronage will continue to grow as people become more confident about travelling chingy holidae inn audio independently in China, rather than on group tours. In Korea, the challenge is convincing travellers to see the country as more than a stopover destination, with limited numbers venturing beyond chingy holidae inn audio the capital, Seoul.
Australian booking agent International Rail recently expanded its offerings to include train journeys in China, Korea, Vietnam and Thailand and is preparing to add India to its line-up. However, the managing director of International Rail Australasia, Jonathan Hume, says there is a way to go with ( click here to keep reading this article by Jane E. Fraser)