Skip to main content

Tourist numbers remain strong in Bali despite Jakarta bomb blasts





Ni Komang Erviani , The Jakarta Post , Denpasar | Sat, 07/18/2009 2:27 PM | National

Tourism in Bali has been unaffected by Friday's deadly suicide bombings on two luxury hotels in Jakarta, officials have said.

“The hotel occupancy rate remains at between 70 and 80 percent. There is yet to be a negative reaction,” head of the Bali Tourism Agency Ida Bagus Ngurah Wijaya told The Jakarta Post on Saturday.

Wijaya added the agency has yet to see any decline in visitors coming from Australia, even though the country has issued a travel warning following the blast, which are believed to have killed three Australians.

Wijaya said that tourism businesses were expecting the government would take firm action to prevent similar attacks in the future. (dre)









Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Royal garb

Kim Kardashian reacts to photographers at the Noon by Noor launch event in West Hollywood, Calif., Wednesday night. Noon by Noor is a fashion collection designed by Kingdom of Bahrain royalty Noor Rashid Al Khalifa and Haya Mohammed Al Khalifa. (AP/Chris Pizzello)       The Jakarta Post | Thu, 07/21/2011 3:04 PM
Post a Comment
Read more

US Stocks Surge to Highest Level of Year on Housing News

By Mil Arcega Washington 24 July 2009 The benchmark Dow Jones industrial average of the top US companies broke the 9,000 point mark Thursday on strong earnings reports and an improving housing picture. Wall Street extended its recent gains Thursday after a new housing report showed sales of previously owned U.S. homes rose at an annual pace of 3.6 percent in June. It was the third straight month of rising home sales. "The markets are reacting to the news today in the context of other things they've been seeing and reading in recent weeks, and that's that the economy does appear to have hit a bottom," said David Resler, chief economist at Nomura Securities. Investors reacted positively to earnings reports from Ford, Ebay, AT&T and higher sales of Apple's new iPhone. Resler says the positive earnings give a much needed confidence boost for the struggling U.S. economy. "I think...
Post a Comment
Read more