Bali

Even EU Commission hadn’t revoke the traveling ban to Indonesia (using Indonesia airways), the number of europe tourist, who come to Bali, is increasing. This data based on first quarter in 2008. From Bali Tourism Agency, European tourists number for first quarter is about 109.970 people. It means 28.9% higher than last year (85.303 tourists). During [...]

Bali government had a plan to socialize and use smart card as a tool in order to control gas buying. Since gas is getting hard to be found, government thinks smart card is a best solution. But, this plan is rejected by Asosiasi Indonesia Tour dan Travel (ASITA) Bali (En: Indonesia Tours and Travel Association). The [...]

To increase tourist come to Bali, finally Indonesia government is increasing flight to Bali. The flight here is abroad flight. So, Indonesia government did a collaboration with abroad flight, especially from Europe, since Indonesian flight is still forbide to across and landing in Europe. Until today, just Singapore Airlines (SQ) has interest to collaborate. But, government [...]

Long week end made Kuta, especially the beach, was very crowded. Hundred people densed almost every streets in Kuta. Many vehicles, motor cycles and cars, took a long line before they can reach the beach. I think majority tourists came from domestic since they want to spent long week end. But the aboard tourists could be [...]

This is not a threat, just a warning. Some arts from Bali are predicted will be extinct since the youth generation choose to play or develop art from outside of Bali. Institut Seni Indonesia/ISI (Indonesia Art Institution) lecture, I Nyoman Carita SST, MFA said gambuh is one sample. The artist gambuh is quite hard to be [...]

Tourists who want to visit Bali, had been warned not go there on March 7, since Nyepi will be celebrated by Balinese (Hindunese). On that day, no one will do activity anywhere in Bali, since when celebrate Nyepi, they will do amati karya (not working) and amati lelungaan (not traveling). It means, the airport and [...]

During January 2008, statistic recorded foreign tourists who came to Bali were increasing more than 27%. It’s about 140,275 tourists meanwhile in January 2007 there was only 109,875 tourists. Target for this year, more than 1,7 million tourists visit to Bali since Bali is in condusive situation even some bombs exploded couple days ago. Japanese are still [...]

After bombing incident couple days ago, some people, especially who work in tourism, felt worry about the effect because they know since after Bali Bomb 1st and 2nd, many tourists canceled their flight/holiday to Bali. Of course, this is not a good news because many people depend their living from tourism. But now, it’s changed. Since [...]

Since Friday, Peb 15 2008, heavy rain occured in Kuta and Legian, the most destination target for tourist in Bali. The effect, of course, there was flood around this tourist destination, moreover in some points the height of water was about 30 cm. Traffic jam also became other problems that happened since many vehicles broke down. Some [...]

Three explosions happened in Bali for couple days. The last explosion happened in a restaurant in jalan Teuku Umar, Denpasar on Sunday Peb 17 2008. Before that, on Friday Peb 15, it happened in jalan Kebo Iwa Selatan, Denpasar. Meanwhile, the first happened in a travel tour, in Gang XVII Jalan Gatot Subroto I Denpasar. Police [...]