Bali News / Bali Travel and Holiday Updates

Himpunan Pramuwisata Indonesia (HPI) – Indonesian Guide Association – cooperates with Ministry of Indonesia Cultural and Tourism Affair held 2010 Indonesian National Guiding Competition in Bali starting from May 6-20. Read the rest of this entry …

Gianyar potential tourism object is not Ubud only. There are lots of other objects in Gianyar but still lack of exploration and development, one of them is Tegenungan Waterfall. Although Tourism Agency in Gianyar already existed, it does not mean that all tourism objects will be managed finely and comfortably visited. Tegenungan waterfall needs deep concern. The condition of Tegenungan waterfall tourism object in Kemenuh Village, Sukawati, Gianyar is very poor. The tourism object that could has great potential to be developed now is in unorganized condition. Read more about Tegenungan waterfall here.

Due to the turbulence happened in Thailand recently, lots of tourists or hotels in Bangkok shifted their destination to Bali. The data gathered at the office of Bali Tourism Agency showed in 2009 tourists come to Bali from Thailand on January, February and March respectively were 662, 844, 1082 then in 2010 those tourists come to Bali from Thailand on January, February as well as March were 1299, 1439, 3348. In other word, the percentage up to around 9 percent in January and 70 percent in February as for March escalated again for 209 percent. Read more about Thailand for Bali Profit here.

Bali Safari & Marine Park in Gianyar regency selling for woven bag, carved, sculpture, woven fabric, silver and Balinese woven fabric as the products of 25 craftsmen. Read the rest of this entry …

Statistic Center Agency recorded, labor force in Bali reached 2.166.972 people on February 2010, and went through 56.114 additional numbers or around 2.72 percent compared with the same month last year that was 2.110.828 people. Read the rest of this entry …

Star hotels in the resort island of Bali witnessed the rise of their room occupancy rates in March from 2.39 percent to 59.30 percent from a month earlier. In March there is 192,579 foreign tourists visited Bali, showed significant increase compared to the month before that was 191,926 foreigners. Badung district recorded room occupancy rate around 61.70 percent, the highest among districts and municipality in Bali. Read more about Hotel Room Occupancy Rate in Bali here.

The performance of Badung firefighters viewed not maximal yet. This is due to the two fire accident happened in Kuta recently, assessed by many parties that due to their half preparation, it triggered the lost actually can be prevented. Commission B of Badung Council in order to deal with that problems, planned to inspect as well as conduct meeting with Badung Firefighter agency to explaine and finding solution for the problems they face all along.He confessed, Kuta is a dense area and quite difficult for rapid-fire anticipation. But, Parwata said that the official should have anticipated that problem through special strategy formulation in that area. Read more about Badung Firefighter Performance here.

Sarcophagus or chest tomb with head similar to dragon found at brick making area in Subak Bitera territory precisely at Jalan By Pass Dharma Giri Blahbatuh Gianyar. The archeology team would check that historical object today, Monday (May 17). Rain sprayed profusely made the area where that thousands years sarcophagus became tarnish. No police line around that historical object situated on the land belong to A.A. Gde Agung Suryaningrat. Around its surrounding, there are only brick setters busy with their job. Meanwhile, the location of that historical object found almost 100 meter from the discovery of sarcophagus with turtle head few months ago. Read more about Human Dragon Sarcophagus here.

Small industry sector produced by craftsmen and artists in Bali had becoming this region export backbone due to its popularity on foreign consumers. “Small industry product given quite significant contribution in raising Bali export rate,” said head of Publication and Documentation Division from Bali Public Relationship and Protocol, I Ketut Teneng, in Denpasar, Saturday (May 15). He said that small and household industry contributes more than 65 percent from Bali total export for around US $74.99 million during January-March 2010 period. Read the rest of this entry …

Abandoned lands or sleeping lands in Badung become problem for Badung Regional Government. It is due to that abandoned lands could not have maximum function in term of economic and social point of view for the people’s welfare. Its existence also hard to be detected maximally. Read the rest of this entry …