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.”

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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 [...]

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Bali as number one destination in Indonesia, also try to prepare something to meet the need to tourists. Among others are adding more guides and offering the world class locations from film shooting.
Indonesia is in need of around 35,000 tourist guides in light of the country’s target of attracting 7 million foreign tourists in 2010.

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Bali Governor I Made Mangku Pastika admitted he was “jealous” of Malaysia because the neighboring country was able to attract up to 22 million foreign tourists in 2008.

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Foreign tourists who often sunbathe in Kuta admitted that they can’t stay out in the open for too long because the sunlight was hotter than usual. Normally, the foreign tourists sunbathe until noon. But now, they only spend few hours, they only sunbath up to 9:30 local time.

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The presence of the Portuguese and Dutch in Indonesian waters, created an impact on Indonesian shipping technology due to an exchange of technological knowledge between the Portuguese and the natives. A member of the Dutch East India Company or Vereenigde Oost Indische Compagnie’s (VOC), willem Lodewycksz, joined the first expedition led by Cornelis de Houtman, [...]

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In the June – August period of 2009, Bali was visited by a total of 383,863 European tourists accounting for 26 percent of the overall number of foreign tourist arrivals in the period which was recorded at 1,464,739.

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Balinese handicraft attract many people to buy it. Currently, there is a new design which is a ‘sokasi’ or a place to put offering for Balinese women ornamented with batik.

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Foreign tourists who came to Bali last June spent an average of 3.54 days on the island, according to the local statistics office.

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The number of French tourists to Bali was up in the first half of this year to 45,716 from only 12,960 in the same period last year, an official said.

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