Sunday March 25, 2007 Los Angeles to Bali from US$740 Cathay Pacific Offers Unbeatable Specials Fares to Bali for U.S. Travelers.
(3/24/2007) Fly to Bali from Los Angeles between April 1 and May 31, 2007 or between August 15 and November 30, 2007 and you could pay only US$740 roundtrip in economy class on Cathay Pacific Airways.Here's the fine print on this exceptional offer from Cathay Pacific Airways:• If yo...read detail
Sunday March 25, 2007 Bali by the Numbers: Dividing Up the Market Mix Pie January - February 2007 versus 2000.
(3/25/2007) In an attempt to see how the complexion of Bali's inbound tourism is changing, this installment of Bali by the Numbers compares the general international market mix for the combined months of January and February for 2000 and 2007.A side-by-side comparison of the same two month period separated...read detail
Sunday March 25, 2007 Ever since 2002, when President Abdurahman Wahid, - popularly known as Gus Dur,- lifted the ban on Chinese culture and Chinese festivals in Indonesia, many communities have been activated to revive this precious heritage that had been forced to stay under wraps for three long decades. Ever since then, Chinese New Year and the Cap Goh Meh, coming 15 day after the New Year, have been celebrated with...read detail
Sunday March 25, 2007 In the aftermath of two fatal air tragedies in the past three months, the government has audited all Indonesian domestic air transport operators. On Thursday evening, 22 March, the new Director General for Air Transportation, Budhi M. Suyitno, announced the results of the audit made, as follows:
Based on 20 parameters, said Budhi Suyitno, operators have been placed into three categories. I...read detail
Sunday March 25, 2007 The very first Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report prepared by the World Economic Forum was published with overall results presented in summary at the international travel forum ITB in Berlin on Thursday, March 8, 2007, reports balidiscovery.com
An exhaustive survey that compared nations in terms of factors that make a country attractive to tourism resulted in a hierarchical ranking of 12...read detail
Sunday March 25, 2007 Ideally, in order to achieve integration, regional partnerships such as ASEAN should not be overly ambitious to try and solve too many issues all at once, advised former EU Deputy Secretary General Europe Commission, Berdhard Zepter in Jakarta recently. Zepter was speaker at a discussion entitled: “Lessons and Reflections on Regionalization: Asian & European Perspectives”. In...read detail
Saturday March 24, 2007 Baliwood: Bali Film Center Attends Major Film Location Show in Bid to Turn Island into Feature Film-Making Mecca.
(3/24/2007) The Director of the Bali Film Center (BFC), Deborah Gabinetti, traveled to FILMART's Locations World held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre March 20-22, 2007, to introduce the diversity of Indonesian and Balinese locations and the low production costs as...read detail
Saturday March 24, 2007 Three Time Ironman Champion Will Join Bali International Triathlon June 24, 2007.
(3/24/2007) Bali International Triathlon, LLC have confirmed that Ironman champion triathlete Chris Lieto will participate in the 1st Annual Bali International Triathlon to be held in Bali on June 24, 2007 at Jimbaran Bay. Lieto's appearance at the Bali race will immediately follow his participation in Ironman Ja...read detail
Saturday March 24, 2007 Indonesian Minister of Culture and Tourism to Officially Welcome Qatar Airway’s Commencement of Service to Bali.
(3/24/2007) As reported on balidiscovery.com [See: Bali Prepares to Welcome Qatar Airways], the Island of Bali will officially welcome the inauguration of a four-time-a-week service by Qatar Airways to Bali on Wednesday, March 28, 2007.Minister Jero Wacik to Personally Welcome...read detail
Wednesday March 21, 2007 Militant groups are devising new strategies in an effort to deal with closer cooperation between countries in the Southeast Asian region and keep victory against terrorism out of reach, Foreign Minister Hassan Wirayuda warned on Monday (5/3/07, as quoted by Indonesia’s Trade and Investment News, published by the Coordinating Ministry for the Economy.
"While we have been enhancing our ...read detail
Tuesday March 13, 2007 The 8th March was International Women’s Day. Initially launched by the UN in 1978 , Women’s Day was meant to support and press on with the fight of the feminist movement in New York at the time to gain universal suffrage (voting rights), and is aimed to raise this awareness internationally, writes Bisnis Indonesia.
Today, however, women’s demands worldwide have widened to...read detail
Sunday March 04, 2007 Hours after publishing the Trade Department press release that Indonesia targets an increase of 14.5% in exports for 2007, Trade Minister Mari Pangestu revised this target to 20% in line with directives just received from Vice President Jusuf Kalla, who came to the Trade Department for a coordinating meeting, reported Kompas daily.
The meeting was also attended by Coordinating for the Economy, B...read detail
Sunday March 04, 2007 On Tuesday evening at 7.0 pm, 27 February, amidst heavy torrential rain, lightning struck the thatched rooftop of the “Pagaruyuang Ustano” or palace, gutting completely this West Sumatra tourism icon within one hour, reports Kompas daily.
Well-known for its graceful upturned pointed roofs and colourful wood-crafted walls, so typical of traditional West Sumatra aristocratic houses, the...read detail
Sunday March 04, 2007 Indonesia has again become a popular destination for European cruise ships this cruising season. The French liner Costa Marina and the German vessel “Albatros” have made Pare-pare and Makassar, both in South Sulawesi, and Benoa, Bali their ports of call. These are to be followed suit by a Dutch cruise ship this week, reports Media Indonesia.
On 3 February, the French liner &ldq...read detail
Sunday March 04, 2007 Jakarta is indeed a resilient city. Barely one week after flood waters inundated some 70% of the capital, Jakartans are back on their feet in droves listening in awe to the reverberating voices of Il Divo, cheering to the music of Muse, and enjoying the Jakarta International Golf Championship, the latter held here from 15-18 February, although a couple of times play was stalled through intermitten...read detail
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