The above items may not be redundant, because seeing occupancy are very high in Bali villas for Christmas until the new year periods. Many of the villas in Bali, ranging from Canggu, Seminyak, Jimbaran, and Nusadua already booked by the tourists who want to enjoy the Christmas holiday and new year in Bali. Private villas are the right holiday accommodation to enjoy Christmas and New Year holidays, because you can use it to make a family party, bbq party or a memorable dinner with your beloved family.

For those of you who have plan to enjoy the Christmas holiday until the New Year in Bali, but do not get accommodation? You may able to stay at Pure Villa, a private luxury villa located hidden in lush tropical rice field in Canggu area. Pure Villa is a brand new 6 bedrooms private villa that equipped by sophisticated facilities and five-star services.

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For those who’ve never lived in private villas, Seminyak area will become their favorite place, because in addition to proximity to Kuta, many entertainment venues or famous fine-dinning restaurants which can be found in Seminyak. For some visitors, perhaps by living in seminyak villas, they will easily reach these places just by walking.

But not a few guests who want tranquility during their holidays, for it they are more likely to choose to stay in private villas in Umalas, Canggu, or Ubud area, but that does not mean villas in Seminyak
not cozy to live in, because a few villas in seminyak area lies in lonely place among the houses
local residents.

Umalas or Canggu is a perfect choice for those who want stay to close with Seminyak, because these areas are just a few minutes driving to Seminyak. In addition, the reasons to stay in private villas located in front of the beach to be one of the reason for guest staying in Canggu villas. Even if it may be compared, a few villas in Canggu has a larger area. But whatever the reason, it’s going back to your vacation needs and budget!

this picture taken on my friends wedding ceremony. theres a lot of artis in bali can make a garnish like this. placed on food tables, this stuff make a more beautifull for decoration set.

For your information, an investor named PT Anantara would like to develop any tourism spot at Buyan lake, such as adrift restaurant and adrift stage for art performance. Water at Buyan lake has getting contraction, and the investor will take benefit from that to develop some tourism spot. But some Balinese component believe that Buyan lake is one of sacred place that sacred to Balinese, and also from some research said Buyan Lake is fountain head. That’s why they prevent any exploration at Buyan Lake.

Buyan Lake is one of the biggest lake in Bali, surround by tropical forest make Buyan Lake is favorite place to have outbound activity such as trekking and camping.

We hope Bali Governor always consist to prevent any exploration at Buyan lake by investor that only take profit.

Let we keep holiness of our environment!

As the peak holiday season expired and the last client depart, worries started to arose. A perfect combination of low season and impact of global financial crisis came as a potential threat. “We have to be very careful in controlling our spending as we have to ensure that we have enough to run our business during the slow period,” an owner of a prominent holiday rental agency in Bali said. “We have been seeing Bali tourism survived worse situation, so there is nothing to worry about. Just business as usual,” another one expressed a more optimistic opinion.

I personally have not that much of worries. With price ranging from $500 to over $3,000 per night, target market of villa rental is wealthy business owners and investors. Crisis may force them t reallocate their portfolio or even significantly cut capitalization of their assets, but it will not affect their lifestyle. If Bill Gates lost 5 billion dollars, will he sell his private jet and fly commercial flight instead? Definitely not. There are a lot of executives and professionals are loosing their job and therefore will no longer afford to spend a holiday, but those people are in $100 – $200 resort hotels’ market range.

Nevertheless, I carefully watch the situation in my own company. It is correct that we do not have many in-house clients in January and probably February as well. But those months are in low season anyway. However bookings for the coming months do not show any evidence of financial crisis. From income point of view, January 2009 has been a good month. I believe that other agents were experiencing similar situation.

There are many logics explaining the cycle actually. “Everybody have just got back home from a Christmas – New Year holidays, so it just does not make any sense to expect the to come now for another holiday,” a simple explanation threw by Gede, a car rental Bali driver who had rare chance to meet his little baby back home as his schedule was completely full from early December through mid of January.

Working for a holiday rental company focusing on up market private accommodation service, Gede was exclusively assigned to families spending their holiday in Seminyak villas. “A number of different clients, but back to back stay period has completely filled up my schedule,” he continued.

With regard to the slow business in the last few weeks Gede did not show any negative expression. “It’s time for me to enjoy my earning from the peak period and spend enough time for my family,” he said. He is quite confident that there is nothing for him to worry about as the holiday rental company has started filling up his schedule starting March onward. The mid season will start as soon as the rainy season ends.

Gede is one of thousands of tour drivers in Bali, a small nut in a huge vehicle of Bali tourism industry. But I guess we have to learn from his optimism. Bali has been seeing worse situation, all of which got through peacefully and ended up in an even stronger business.

Little different with both ceremonies above, Nyepi Day or many people known as Silent Day will be celebrate once a year. But in this year, three ceremonies above will be celebrate in two weeks. Many peoples have enthusiastic to celebrate ceremonies in this year, but we will not find Ogoh-ogoh (giant puppet) on Pengerupukan day (day before Nyepi), it caused in this period Indonesia will hold election.

Happy Galungan, Kuningan, and Nyepi Day !

Photo by Ramayadi

To strengthen its market positioning in Phuket, the board of PLI invited the board of DwiBali to join their business trip to Phuket. Having the collaboration based on friendship, the trip was designed to combine leisure in addition to business objectives. “We are in leisure business so it makes sense to give ourselves chances to enjoy what we are offering,” said Wisna Wedhana, the Managing Partner of PLI.

The journey started from Penang, Malaysian tiny island which combines industry, European heritage, tropical beaches in a very nice package. Whilst both PLIs and DwiBalis agreed that Penang was not the right place for their business, they had all the reasons to agree that they were having a good time before hading up for a heart pumping action of F1 drivers in Malaysian Grand Prix at Sepang.

Their program in Phuket was led by PLI’s Phuket representative Chatrudee Chookeaw, a young energetic holiday property veteran who joined PLI since the first time it entered Phuket. From the picturesque Baan Talaefun where they stayed, site inspections and meetings were planned, executed, and evaluated. In addition to courtesy meetings with owners and representatives of luxury villas which have so far been happy clients of PLI, the program was also directed to acquiring newcomers into portfolio, especially low to mid end ones to fill the needs of their prospective clients.

“It is a potential market and we are keen to start joining PLI to expand our own business portfolio”, said Denny Widhana, the Director of DwiBali in their evaluation discussion in Singapore. At the end both PLI and DwiBali were looking toward a closer cooperation to strengthen market positioning in Phuket.

I may be wrong. This is a rough conclusion from what I have seen through my own eyes. And my eyes could be wrong. I fact I am very dependant to a cylindrical glass. Well, I do not want to mislead people. Quite contrary, I want to encourage people to look into things from the positive sides, at at least if it is at all negative, to find a way to turn it around.

I guess my lifestyle helps has saved me from the impact of global financial crisis. With almost everything I consume, from meals to clothing and even vehicle, is locally produced, I can afford anything I need the same way as two years ago. Few things like gadgets and computers did not bite quite an attention as I do not buying these stuffs everyday.

Running a holiday rental business I found that closing to peak holiday season coming between July and September, my salespersons are crying for supplies. Inquiries are flowing in whilst supplies are no longer exist. All villas in Bali are booked out during the period. Supply for Christmas – New Year period which is still a half year ahead starts to run out as well.

It is definitely not a picture of myself alone, I believe. My fellows in the same business confirmed similar situation. Bali tours are foreseeing similar picture. I believe the whole tourism industry in Bali is not really affected by global economic crisis. Officials announced that number of tourist visits recorded a slight increase in the first four months of 2009 compared to the same period of previous year.

Thank God that I life in Bali. It is a real paradise, I think. More than beautiful beach and sunshine along the year, it protects from the harm, even the one flow from the most powerful country.

However, no matter how mature the service excellent has grew, private villas remains as private property of the owner which inherit personal taste and style of the owners. Professional management companies may be able to bring service excellent to certain high quality standard, but who could standardize people’s personal taste? In that very sense, getting consistent offerings like luxurious hotel chains is hard to achieve in villa rental industry.

This is the main reason why offline travel agents, selling their products through physical outlets, find it difficult to sell villa accommodation. Another reason is private villas only have one selling unit per property, compared to resort hotels which have hundreds of rooms to sell in one single property. Creating product package, preparing sales material, and similar efforts are not economically viable only to sell one selling unit per property.

Therefore so far private villas remains very dependent to online rental agents, featuring the villas in network of their business. Low cost of creating and managing websites makes online marketing fits the nature of one selling unit per property nature. In fact, once a website completed, the only costs on featuring a new villa is five minutes of time. “All of our business comes through website, and guests referred by happy clients, which initially came from our websites”, Wisna Wedhana of Private Leisure International, villa rental agents representing Bali and Thailand villas said.

Most of these rental agents got their business solely from their websites. In most cases, they never make any traditional advertising. “Website can reach everyone allover the globe at one cost. If you place an and on The New York Times, you will only reach people in New York. Imagine how much you have to spend if you want to reach the whole world”, the Chairman of Bali Villa Rental Association exposed the logic. No wonder why Bali SEO and Bali web design consultants are packed by villa rental clientele.