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Bali, The Best Leisure Destination in Asia Pacific
Posted by Bali Tours on July 27, 2010
Bali remains the icon of Indonesian tourism. Amidst the effort of the government to meet the target of attracting 7 million foreign tourists to Indonesia, Bali has won “The Best Leisure Destination in Asia Pacific” award from the Business Travellers Asia Pacific magazine based in Hong Kong, a tourism official said. The award would be presented to the Bali provincial government at Conrad Hotel in Hong Kong on September 10, Head of the Bali Provincial Tourism Office Ida Bagus Subhiksu said here on Monday.
Earlier, Travel and Leisure magazine, a leading New York based tourism magazine recently awarded this Island of Gods with the title “The World Best Island in Asia 2010″. The World’s Best Award 2010 Ceremony was conducted in New York, Wednesday afternoon (21/7). The Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts Hotel in Jimbaran Bali was also awarded as the “World Best Hotel Spas in Asia 2010″.
Awards in various categories were also rewarded to about 100 awardees from all over the world. The Consul for Education and Socio Cultural Affairs who was present on behalf of the Indonesian Consulate General in New York received the award granted for Bali as “Best Island in Asia 2010″, which was handed over personally by Nancy Novogrod and Mr. Jean Paul Kyrillos, the Editor in Chief and the Publisher of Travel+Leisure Magazine.
The decision to appoint awardees this year was made through a survey conducted between 15 December 2009 and 31 March 2010 which gathered information based on the holiday experience of the readers of the magazine. Bali was said to have met the criteria as the best island because its natural beauty was spread out all over the island, both on its mountainous as well as coastal areas. Besides, it was also considered to have various tourism attractions, complemented with international as well as local restaurants, distributed all over the island. The people were also considered to be friendly and warm.
Awards given away on this event were for various categories. Besides the “best island” and “best spa hotel” categories, other categories included those for “best city”, “best hotel”, “best spa destination”, “best golf resort”, “best cruise lines”, “best airlines”, “best car rental”. Some of those categories are further divided into regions, such as US and Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia/New Zealand/South Pacific, the Caribbean, and Central/South America.
Source: Antara News and Ministry of Foreign Affairs
32nd Bali Arts Festival 2010
Posted by Bali Tours on June 12, 2010
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono called on Bali people and regional government to benefit from the annual Bali Arts Festival a forum to develop creativity and innovation.
“Make the festival not only a mere arts party but a forum for cultural dialogues that are enlightening and educative,” the President was quoted by Antara at the opening of the 32nd Bali Cultural Festival in Denpasar on Saturday evening. Yudhoyono also expected the festival to further promote tourism in Bali in particular and in the country in general.
“Let us present the products of our artists and cultural workers to attract tourists so that they could enjoy our various cultures and multi-cultural expressions,” he said. The month-long annual festival is also participated in by foreign arts troupes such as from Japan, the US, Canada, France and India.
The Bali Arts Festival is a full month of daily performances, handicraft exhibitions and other related cultural and commercial activities during which literally the whole of Bali comes to the city to present its offerings of dance, music and beauty. On display are trances from remote mountain slopes, forgotten or recently revived village dances, food and offering contests, classical palace dances, stars of Balinese stage, odd musical performances, “kreasi baru” (new creations) from the dance schools of Denpasar, as well as contemporary choreography and dance companies from other islands and from abroad.
It is a month long revelry that perhaps no other place in the world can put up on such a low budget as the Balinese. Not only is their traditional culture alive and well, but they have a tremendous pride in it.
It begins in the villages, where the seka or cultural groups are selected and organized at the regency level, vie with each other to perform the Arts Festival and thus display in front of a large audience the uniqueness of their village of birth and resting place of their ancestors.
The Bali Arts Festival is the Denpasar cultural event of the year, perhaps it would no be too far fetched to suggest that it is the cultural event of Indonesia. The festival is thus a unique opportunity to see local village culture both “live” and at first hand. Tourists are warmly welcomed.
Source: The Jakarta Post and Bali Art Festival
