Outbound travel will continue to boom in Asia in spite of rising interest rates, higher oil prices and persisting economic uncertainties MasterCard International today announced the results of its MasterIndex of Travel report, forecasting more than 67.5 million outbound travelers from Asia/Pacific and over 1.6 million from Thailand in the first half of 2006. Besides a six month forecast of outbound travel for 12 markets (Australia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand