Netherlands, South Korea, Russia, and several other countries are the potential market for Bali’s tourism. They are potential because most of the foreign tourists visited Bali in the past few years were coming from those countries.
Ida Komang Wisnu, the head of Bali Statistic Department, said “the government and other tourism components must intensify the promotion to those countries.” He added that the number of people from Netherlands, South Korea, and Russia visited Bali is increasing in the last few years. …click here to read more

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The hotel occupancy rates in Bali was 53% in January 2010 for star hotels. The number decreased 6% compare to December 2009 which was 59%. Ida Komang Wisnu, the head of Bali Statistic department, said “the hotel occupancy rate is highly connected with the number of tourists visited Bali.” …click here to read more

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Spokesperson for the National Aviation and Space Institute (LAPAN) Ratih Dewanti said Indonesia will host the 4th symposium of the Asia-Pacific Group on Earth Observation System and Systems (GEOSS) on global climate change.
She said that this time the deliberations will be on global climate change involving various countries. The world is now working together in reducing the impact. She said the meeting of 26 Asia Pacific countries from March 10 to 12, 2010, at Sanur Paradise Plaza Hotel and Suits, Bali, is expected to strengthen cooperation network among its member countries. …click here to read more

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Brunt of the waves make the Tegalbesar beach area, Negari, Banjarangkan continued to be eroded. In addition, the river flow has begun to make turns, causing more worry among the residents near Tegalbesar beach. “The brunt on the estuary side of the river has eroded the west part of the coast. Especially in estuaries of Melangit River, the Tegalbesar border with Gianyar has already been shifted permanently”, said a local resident, Monday (8/2). …click here to read more

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On welcoming the Caka New Year 1932 (Nyepi Day) on Monday (March 15) Denpasar city government will hold an Ogoh-Ogoh or papier mache demon competition among the Sekaa Teruna or customary village youth club throughout Denpasar City. Other than intended for ritual need, the competition also becomes an arena of creativity for the young, especially Sekaa Teruna in Denpasar. It was revealed by the Mayor of Denpasar in the face Sekaa Teruna not long ago. …click here to read more

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In order to prevent more damage done to forests in Jembrana, the entrance of the forets will be heavily guarded. Destruction of tens of thousands of hectares of forest in Jembrana really made the regent of Jembrana, I Gede Winasa disided to revitalize the program of zero-visit to forest by placing a number of officers to guard the entrance to the forest. …click here to read more

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Tourism minister Jero Wacik officially started the operation of the “Immigration on Board” service at Ngurah Rai airport in Bali on Monday. “The operation of the service is expected to be able to cut lines at the Visa on Arrival counter so that foreign tourists would feel more comfortable. I hope in the future I can expand the service for Korea, China and Australia destinations,” he said.
He said the service was the latest breakthrough in improving service to foreign tourists and it would ease their arrival in the country because they should not have to stand in line at the airport.
“Tourists have so far complained about the Visa-On-Arrival service which could take hours. If their immigration process could be completed on board they certainly could directly leave for hotels upon arrival,” he said.
The immigration on Board service is now still limited to Garuda flights from Narita, Japan. It is hoped it could be expanded to other countries as well.
“The facilities will make tourists eager to come to Indonesia,” he said.
The commerce director of Garuda Indonesia, Agus Priyanto, said the national airline company would continue to support the government’s program for increasing tourist arrivals.
“this is Garuda’s step to help ease foreign tourists’ arrival in Indonesia,” he said.
Regarding the minister’s plan to expand the service to cover tourists from other countries he said “we have been ready to implement the Immigration on Board program for tourists from other countries soon the immigration and banks are ready.” The head of Bali tourism service, Ida Bagus Kade Subhiksu, hoped the effort would increase the number of tourists from a number of Bali’s main tourism markets such as Australia, China and Korea. Australian tourists to Bali in 2009 reached 20 percent of the total number of foreign tourists, followed by Japanese tourists (14 percent), Chinese (9 percent) and Korea (six percent).
Malaysian tourists ranked four in number after the Chinese but they have a free-visa facility for a short visit.

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The activities in Kuta beach was disturbed by sand storm. The storm made the sand covered the road in the beach area. I Gusti Ngurah Tresna, the head of Kuta authorized officer, said “the wind is very strong. The big rocks in front of Kartika Plaza hotel are destroyed by the strong wind.”
The big rocks actually placed there to block the big waves from hammering the hotel compound but the wind break it into pieces. The condition made the hotel staffs and the officers of Kuta must clean the debris. “The hotel management has come to us and asks assistance to clean the debris. We also requested the help from the government to handle the problem,” Ngurah Tresna said.
Eight rocks as much as one ton each were placed in the beach area in front of Kartika Plaza hotel. It was needed to prevent the abrasion on the area. Six out of eight rocks were destroyed by the strong wind and big waves. Ngurah Tresna said “we already contacted the authorized department in order to replace the destroyed rocks. The damage needs to be repaired soon because the abrasion could get worse especially during the poor weather condition.”
Rai Yusa, the head of General Work Department said that the problem will be handled by the abrasion handling team. “the team will try to reassemble the rocks for temporary support because it is very dangerous to work in the poor weather condition,” he added. Currently, the team will monitor the condition in the beach area in order to determine the next step.

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Art groups that teach traditional Balinese dancing and music develop rapidly throughout the world. The condition gives positive effect to tourism in bali. Kadek Suartaya, a lecturer in Indonesian Art Institute (ISI) Denpasar, said “the most famous art groups are Sekar Jaya in US and Sekar Jepun in Japan.” …click here to read more

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The traffic congestion that usually happen in the Denpasar – Nusa Dua route raise concern from Bina Marga, the agency that responsible for roads’ development in Indonesia. According to Director of Technic Management at Directorate Bina Marga, Public Works Department danis H. Sumadilaga, to solve the problem central government plan to build Serangan – Tanjung Benoa Bridge or a high way that will build around Dewa Ruci roundabout.
The bridge, said Sumadilaga, will cost around IDR 1.3 trillion, meanwhile the high way cost less around IDR 150 billions. But up until now, the government doesn’t have budgets on the two projects. “We still count and do some researches about the two choices, which one is the best option for Bali,” he stated.
He admitted if traffic congestion can make Bali less attractive in tourists’ perspectives. That’s why, Sumadilaga explained, government trying to fix the problem as soon as possible because the traffic congestion in that route has been happened for sometimes now. “We will give fund support on the road development in Bali, especailly for the tourism reason. So far we’re already build road to connect Nusa Dua, Sanur, Denpasar to Kusamba, and will build ring road that will go around Bali,” Sumadilaga elaborated.
On National Outcome and Income Budget of 2010, added Chief of The Eight Chapter on National Road Development Ir. Susalit Alius, (CES, his area (Bali, NTB, and NTT) have budget allocation worth IDR1,07 trillion from IDR16 trillions that central govenmnet will spend to build national road. Especially in Bali, the allocation will focus on building the road to support the tourism sector, He stated, recently his office already built connection road to Tanah Ampo, Karangasem in order to give access to cruise port.

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