Bali News / Bali Travel and Holiday Updates

Governor of West Nusa Tenggara, Muhammad Zainul Majdi, said that Visit Lombok - Sumbawa 2012 will be taken as the momentum to boost Lombok to become wa world class tourism destination in 2012. “Our will is to make Lombok a world class tourism destination by 2012″, he said when he launched Visit Lombok - Sumbawa 2012 in Jakarta. Read the rest of this entry …

Confirmed infection of H1N1 in Bali has not yet to affect Bali tourism in significant extent. Arrival of foreign tourists recorded at Ngurah Rai International Airport remains stable at an average of 6,000 per day. Read the rest of this entry …

Cipta Karya Office (DCK) of Badung has just announced the result of official examination on sample taken from deep water well of Waterbom. Examination conducted at the laboratory for public health of Udayana University found no salt water intrusion nor leakages in water processing installation of Waterbom, as predicted before. Nevertheless DCK would follow up violation report in deep water exploitation by Waterbom. Unfortunately no penalties would be imposed. Read the rest of this entry …

Chairman of Indonesian Tour Guide Association and President of South-East Asian Tour Guide Association I Nyoman Kandia believes that the mushrooming illegal villas in a number of regencies in Bali has brought negative impact into harmonious environmental management as well as the tourism development in Bali. Therefore he expected related public officials to intensify law enforcement against illegal Bali villas to protect image of Bali tourism and to promote people-based tourism. Read the rest of this entry …

Development center of tourism human resources in collaboration with Bali Tourism Board (BTB) has conducted a workshop on service excellence at Inna Sindhu Beach Hotel, Sanur. The three days event started on Thursday, June 25th, was attended by some tens of participants, mostly managers and general managers of up to 3-star hotels. Read the rest of this entry …

Employment liberalization in Asean will be started in 2010. However human resource of Bali tourism is definitely not ready to face employment liberalization both in regional and international level. Out of 40,000 tourism workers, only 500 in executive level hold international certification. Read the rest of this entry …

Indonesian President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, opened the 31st annual Bali Arts Festival on Saturday evening, June 13th 2009, by sounding “kulkul”, Balinese traditional way to call people for gathering, which then immediately followed by performance of colossal dance-drama titled “Bima Swarga”. Read the rest of this entry …

Indonesian President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has been confirmed his presence to officially opens the 31st Bali Art Festival - locally known as PKB - at Bali Art Center, Denpasar, tomorrow night (Saturday, June 13th). The President will open the festival titled “Mulat Sarira” in a traditional way. Read the rest of this entry …

Global financial crisis did not seem to affect handicraft industry producing statues in Banyuwangi, East Java. Demand for their products from Bali remained stable so far, even tended to increase. Beyond Bali, similar situation also seen in various European markets. Read the rest of this entry …

With the increasing death toll for consuming poisonous arak - Balinese traditional alcoholic brew - arak sellers started to worried in continuing their business. In fact, stopping arak trade - and other alcoholic beverage - publicly has been a must for long, as in the long run it will bring negative impact to behavior of young generation. Read the rest of this entry …