Bali news & links

April 22nd, 2008
Sanur Paradise Plaza, Bali, Renovates Rooms
The Sanur Paradise Plaza Hotel, Bali, has just completed an extensive renovation of all its higher room categories and is ready to offer guests a more comfortable experience within an ambiance of resort tranquillity. All 101 rooms, which consist of the balcony room, pool view room, deluxe room and suites, have been renovated with the hotel [...]

March 29th, 2008
Bali in favour with Aussies
Last year, 204,473 Australians visited Bali, up from 137,000 in 2006. Only the Japanese outstrip us in their enthusiasm for the beautiful island. If that kind of growth continues, then 2008 will beat the 2004 record of 267,500. But while Australian tourists have confidence in Bali, our Government does not and this is causing angst among a [...]

February 23rd, 2008
Bali still main destination of Australian tourists
Bali appears to have remained a main destination for Australians as the number of Australian tourists visiting Bali is only second to that of Japanese tourists, a local statistical official said. Some 204,473 Australian tourists were among a total of 1,666,079 foreign tourists who visited Bali in 2007, the head of the local statistical bureau, Ida [...]

January 18th, 2008
Japanese travelers turn to Bali, Macau
Japanese outbound travel continues to slow, including to Hawaii. For the year to date through November, Japanese arrivals to Hawaii dropped 3.5 percent to 1.2 million total visitors. Hawaii remains the fourth most popular draw for Japanese, after China and South Korea, which are primarily of business travel destinations, and France. Also according to the Japan National Travel [...]

January 18th, 2008
Bali sees rise in Korean tourists
Bali’s reviving tourism industry has experienced a rise in the number of visitors from South Korea, who have long been considered the “non-traditional” tourist market for Indonesia. Based on a figure from Bali’s tourism agency, as reported by Antara on Monday, the number of South Korean tourists rose by 54.1 percent to 121,858 last year from [...]

January 18th, 2008
Two degrees of misrepresentation from Bali
The setting of a limit on how much global temperatures are allowed to increase is an inherently political process. The UN-led climate change conference in Bali will be remembered less for the “road map” that it eventually created than for a messy collision between the US and much of the rest of the world that kept [...]

December 9th, 2007
U.S. under pressure at climate conference in Bali
American climate negotiators refused to back down in their opposition to mandatory cuts in greenhouse gas emissions Thursday, even as a U.S. Senate panel endorsed sharp reductions in pollution blamed for global warming. The United States, the world’s largest producer of such gases, has resisted calls for strict limits on emissions at the U.N. climate conference, [...]

December 3rd, 2007
Bali talks aim to jumpstart climate change fight
BALI, Indonesia. About 190 nations start talks on Monday to try to sharpen the main weapon against climate change, the Kyoto treaty, by involving all countries ranging from the United States to the poorest in Africa. Delegates to the U.N.-sponsored talks in Bali, Indonesia, are under intense pressure to launch negotiations on a “roadmap” that will [...]

November 19th, 2007
Climate policies under scrutiny ahead of Bali summit
A UN climate change report suggesting the world is on the brink of an environmental catastrophe has reignited the political debate over global warming. The latest report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says millions of people could be affected by rising temperatures and forecasts more heat waves, melting glaciers and rising sea [...]

November 15th, 2007
World finance ministers to convene in Bali
Finance ministers from across the world will hold a two-day meeting in conjunction with the international conference on climate change next month in Indonesia’s resort island of Bali. They will discuss financial issues and policies to address the concern of climate change, Indonesian Finance Minister Mulyani Indrawati said Thursday. The ministers will meet on Dec 10-11 to [...]