Presumably the corrupt airline also employees thousands of people who are not corrupt, and simply trying to support their livelihoods and families, as do the thousands employed by the Hyatt and Sheraton and luxury resorts. Presumably, the luxury resorts are also, from time to time, engaged in the dirty business of corruption and greasing the system with cold cash.

At a time of emergency, staying in a luxury hotel and flying BA will in fact not help the local economy and the country (only the foreign owners who benefit, the rich corrupt owners in Jakarta or wherever). Neither will staying in a B&B. These places need to rebuild and save the survivors from abject poverty and disease, and not quickly rebuild hotels so tourists can get a tan. That should and will come later.

I would add though that it would be great if tourist with existing bookings continue on their trips, rather than cancel, to help support the local economy in whatever way they can. But the priority must still be reconstruction and helping the survivors, not catering to people taking advantage of cheap deals.

In addition, building an economy around tourism is precarious at best, and the thousands of people employed by tourism in places such as Indonesia live a precarious existence; the economy is fragile and very vulnerable to even the slightest shock (let alone a tsunami that kills hundreds of thousands). Of course, I would not say get rid of tourism and whether one chooses to stay in the lap of luxury or go the Lonely Planet route is not a function of which kind of trade one supports, but rather personal taste and preference.

And very OT... fair trade in some form is much better than "free" trade in the current form. I could qualify that, but that would take far too long and probably not appropriate here anyway. Just my humble opinion.