Please help the people of Bali ...

[drbill]

I was scheduled to fly into Bali and do some diving back in 2001 on a three month around-the-Pacific backpacking/diving trip, but at the last minute the air consolidator re-routed me through Kuala Lumpur and never told me why. I was really disappointed and hope to go there in the future.

 

[dawhale]

Bali at record levels

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Posted by dadvet on Friday, 30. November 2007 at 15:22 Bali Time:
In Reply to: Is Bali Busy at the Moment posted by Leonie on Friday, 30. November 2007 at 13:51 Bali Time:

This Octeber was best ever October for foreign arrivals with 146.000 coming to Bali, about 16.000 better than any previous October. Australians are accounting for about 11% of these and have risen 50% on last year but still 30% down on numbers in October 2005. Most other markets are at record levels and some are growing at a very high rate with increases every month.
So far this year about 1.376.000 overseas visitors have come to Bali and that is about 130.000 more than any previous year.
Unfortunately it is only the Australian market which is lagging in post-problems recovery but overall Bali is all go and busy.

 

[Bali-Freak]

Yes, raw tourist numbers have rebounded. However as noted by one of the local news sites here;

"The downward economic impact of the supplanting of long-haul, long-staying and high-spending Western Europeans and North Americans by regional visitors on brief, low-spending visits is not reflected in the aggregate totals for arrivals."

That said, one shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth, and for the tourist industry here bums on (airline) seats are always better than empty seats.

 

[highdesert]

I've actually been wondering where in Bali 10,00 people met and stayed for the recent global warming conference. And what would the traffic be like? Denpasar's traffic is nuts now, at least in my perspective.