As the peak season across Christmas and New Year holiday period, Bali fell into low season. Whist it is a normal cycle that starting mid of January Bali tourism enters the lowest business pace, this particular low season attracts significant worries of many tourism business players in Bali, especially related to the global financial crisis [...]
In last of March 2009, we will find three big ceremonies for Balinese. First is Galungan, second is Nyepi and then Kuningan. Usually, Galungan and Kuningan will be celebrate every 6 month, where Kuningan will celebrate ten days after Galungan Day. Little different with both ceremonies above, Nyepi Day or many people known as Silent [...]
In search of expansion beyond Bali as its initial market, Bali based holiday rental agency Private Leisure International (PLI) has started to expand its outreach toward the region by bringing villas in Phuket and Koh Samui into its portfolio. After two years it has recorded quite a significant success by gaining trusts from a handful [...]
Economists will definitely confirm that it is real. There are a lot of evidences to look around, from the downfall of financial and automotive giants in the US to the urge of Indonesian government to flow fiscal stimulus. Fortunately in Bali where I life and make a living, I do not see it impacts both [...]
Holiday rental business has grown into commercial scale from its initial stage when wealthy villa owners wanted to get a little income to cover costs of maintaining their villas by renting them out whilst they were not occupying them. As time goes by, villa rental has grown into a maturity. Most Bali villas are no [...]
