Asia Travel Blog

Bali is still a favorite destination for Chinese tourists. We can see the fact from the statistic during Jan - Aug 2009. From 231,981 Chinese tourists, it’s about 135,690 (60%) choose Bali as their destination. This can be happened, since the promotion about Bali is quite frequent in China. Soon or later, this promotion made many [...]

Maybe most of us know that Malaysia is one of Indonesia’s competitor to attract tourists to their own countries. The competition is happening in many areas, such as destinations, culiners, cultures, and many more. Sometimes competition spirit is touch the nationality, especially for Indonesian people. Some cases made Indonesian people did some demonstrations for Malaysia’s [...]

Happy Eid Mubarak! I’m sorry for my faults on this blog. :-)

Recently, swine flu became a terror that spread around the world. This terror is quite scary many countries, especially countries which depend on tourism for their income. Maybe Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia can be mentioned as them. Well, this flu was found in Mexico, about a month ago.

Suvarnabhumi is a international airport in Bangkok, Thailand. If we compare with our international airport, Soekarno Hatta, many good things will you find there, such as: Luxurious Huge Comfort No ticket scalper No illegal taxi Discipline [...]

The Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report 2009 release a statement about world tourism. From the statement, Indonesia has position in 81th, meanwhile Singapore is in top ten. The data were collected from any resources, include from business practicals. The Top Ten list os Switzerland, Austria, German, France, Canada, Spain, Swedia, US, Australia, and Singapore. For ASEAN countries, [...]

Well, not only Singapore who became a victim of NPWP, but Malaka as well. Malaka governor, Mohd Ali Rustam, said new fiscal policy from Indonesia made an effect, the tourist from Indonesia decreased whereas Chinese New Year (Imlek) will coming soon, and Malaka had became a destination to celebrate Imlek for Indonesia tourists.

The progressive of period sometimes sacrifice some things around us. One of them is culture. Melayu drum, as one of traditional music instrument, is one of culture part that being a victim, since these days, many people prefer play a modern music instrument. However, we can find many persons still take care of this traditional music [...]

Well, since the government apply the penalty for anyone who doesn’thave NPWP (tax id), the visiting to Singapore, from Sekupang International Harbour , is decreasing up to 75%. Zulkifli, the ticketing coordinator said this decreasing can be seen, since the normal visiting is about 500 tourists, but last week, there are only 275 visitors on [...]

Recently, China government promoted their currency, Yuan, as a global currency. They started it with allowed their neighbour district, Hongkong and Macao, to use Yuan as payment transaction. The next move is using Yuan when make a deal with ASEAN country. This movement has many benefits, such as help China’s export, decrease rate fluctuation, especially for [...]