Bali News

The visit of tourist in Bali in first half year 2010 reach 1,3 million people or raise 12 percent prefer than the visit of tourist in the same period 2009. There are some who wants looking for calm in Bali. It is appeared from the number of tourist who stayed in hotel or villa located in the village in the side of river or cliff,” said Dewa Nyoman Putrawan, the observer of Bali’ tourism.

I Wayan Munut known as the pioneer in building hotel in the cleft of Ayung river in Kedewatan located 30 km in North Denpasar, said the build of this kind of hotel spreaded to the around of Bali. Many foreign and domestic tourist stayed in the valleys because of its calm environment. It is made the price of that land raised much more than land in town.
Dewa who experienced in delivering foreign tourist to the tourism object still remembered if the land price in the cliff on 1980’s was only 175.000 rupiah per hectare, but now it is reached hundred million rupiah per hectare. “It makes many foreign people bought the cliff then built the hotel in the name of local citizen and the marketing processed in other country,” he said. Bali’s called paradise island by international people because it is able to serve calm nature that makes the amount of foreign tourist increased.
Putrawan said the behavior of the tourist changed. In 1980’s, they like visit Bali especially in hotel located in beach whether in Kuta, Sanur or Nusa Dua. But it is reversed to the villa appears in village that made many fields change its function estimated thousand hectare of them every year in Bali.

News by Nusa Bali