Bali to receive Tourism Award
One more Award for Bali, “The Best Leisure Destination in Asia Pacific” given by Business Travelers Asia Pacific magazine based in Hong Kong.
Bali provincial government will receive this award at the Conrad Hotel, Hong Kong on September 10. Bali’s representative receiving this award is still being coordination between Bali Provincial Tourism and the Bali Tourism Board (BTB). The Governor Bali, I Made Mangku Pastika is expected to have a chance to go to Hong Kong as he has good understanding of Mandarin Language. His presence will hopefully help promote the Bali tourism before hundreds of invited guests
It will be the second award received by the province this year after receiving the award for World Best Island in Asia 2010” from Travel and Leisure magazine based in New York.
Tourism agency head Ida Bagus Subhiksu said he was proud of the award, saying it would promote Bali and will hopefully increase tourist arrivals in Bali.
Subhiksu said the award should motivate the island to make some improvements. “Although we have been awarded the best destination, many problems persist, mainly with regards to cleanliness and traffic jams. We should improve this.”
As of June this year, 1.2 million foreign tourists, mostly from Australia, Japan and China, have visited and stayed in Bali, a 13 percent increase from the same period last year.
Rock on Bali!! Well deserved been 3 times now to Bali and love it every time. Be back again next year hopefully the traffic situation won’t be as bad…something to work on
I love Bali and nice to hear Bali received one more award..even now many hotels/apartment built but I hope Bali will keep their image as Island of God and its natural, coz those things made Bali popular as now..