Best July ever for Bali foreign arrivals
Foreign tourist arrivals for the month of July 2008 hit 183,122 making it the best July ever, improving +11.24 percent over last year’s record-breaking performance for July 2007 (164,618). On a year-to-date basis, January-July arrivals for 2008 have broken the psychological barrier of 1 million, recording 1,108.061 foreign arrivals for the first seven months of [...]

Bali tourism gets OK back from US government
Bali tourism, after having been in the dark shadows of terrorist activities, may soon be on the road to recovery. The US government has endorsed the Indonesian tourism capital by lifting its almost decade-long travel advisory. The move is expected to have a domino effect on Bali’s tourism, with other countries following the US action. “The US [...]

Asia?s best in Bali
The Guinness 9 Ball Tour in Aug 31-Sep 2 last year saw a fitting finale in Indonesia. Indonesia has historically been known as an exotic land where the people are as warm as the yearlong sunshine, and nowhere is this more apparent than on the island of Bali. Located just off the Eastern tip of the major [...]

Sanur Paradise Plaza, Bali, Renovates Rooms
The Sanur Paradise Plaza Hotel, Bali, has just completed an extensive renovation of all its higher room categories and is ready to offer guests a more comfortable experience within an ambiance of resort tranquillity. All 101 rooms, which consist of the balcony room, pool view room, deluxe room and suites, have been renovated with the hotel [...]

Bali in favour with Aussies
Last year, 204,473 Australians visited Bali, up from 137,000 in 2006. Only the Japanese outstrip us in their enthusiasm for the beautiful island. If that kind of growth continues, then 2008 will beat the 2004 record of 267,500. But while Australian tourists have confidence in Bali, our Government does not and this is causing angst among a [...]

Bali still main destination of Australian tourists
Bali appears to have remained a main destination for Australians as the number of Australian tourists visiting Bali is only second to that of Japanese tourists, a local statistical official said. Some 204,473 Australian tourists were among a total of 1,666,079 foreign tourists who visited Bali in 2007, the head of the local statistical bureau, Ida [...]

Japanese travelers turn to Bali, Macau
Japanese outbound travel continues to slow, including to Hawaii. For the year to date through November, Japanese arrivals to Hawaii dropped 3.5 percent to 1.2 million total visitors. Hawaii remains the fourth most popular draw for Japanese, after China and South Korea, which are primarily of business travel destinations, and France. Also according to the Japan National Travel [...]

Bali sees rise in Korean tourists
Bali’s reviving tourism industry has experienced a rise in the number of visitors from South Korea, who have long been considered the “non-traditional” tourist market for Indonesia. Based on a figure from Bali’s tourism agency, as reported by Antara on Monday, the number of South Korean tourists rose by 54.1 percent to 121,858 last year from [...]

Two degrees of misrepresentation from Bali
The setting of a limit on how much global temperatures are allowed to increase is an inherently political process. The UN-led climate change conference in Bali will be remembered less for the “road map” that it eventually created than for a messy collision between the US and much of the rest of the world that kept [...]

U.S. under pressure at climate conference in Bali
American climate negotiators refused to back down in their opposition to mandatory cuts in greenhouse gas emissions Thursday, even as a U.S. Senate panel endorsed sharp reductions in pollution blamed for global warming. The United States, the world’s largest producer of such gases, has resisted calls for strict limits on emissions at the U.N. climate conference, [...]