Visit Indonesia Year 2008: a success?

The Indonesian government’s Visit Indonesia Year (VIY) 2008 campaign has not met its expected target. According to critics of the Indonesian government, so far it’s been a failure.

Indonesia mud lake draws tourists to disaster zone

PORONG, Indonesia - Mud tourism is about the only thing that is flourishing in Porong, an East Java suburb that two years ago became a disaster zone when hot volcanic mud began spewing from the site o

Best July ever for Bali foreign arrivals

Foreign tourist arrivals for the month of July 2008 hit 183,122 making it the best July ever, improving +11.24 percent over last year's record-breaking performance for July 2007 (164,618).

Singapore Airlines joins forces with Indonesian tourism ministry to promote Indonesia

Singapore Airlines announced on 25 August that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Indonesian Ministry of Culture and Tourism (IMCT) to contribute to activities to promote Indonesia a

Indonesian airline in need of 200 pilots

Citing a report from BisnisBali, balidiscovery.com has claimed that Indonesia’s flag-carrier Garuda Indonesia is planning to recruit 200 new pilots needed to fly their fleet of new Boeing 737-800 ai

Bali: A shrinking island

An article in Bali Post reports that the geographic "face" of Bali is becoming smaller with each passing year.

Airasia Indonesia launches inaugural flight to Singapore

Another new airline has joined Singapore Changi Airport's air network today. AirAsia Indonesia's inaugural flight touched down at 10:15 a.m.

Cleaning up the image of Bali tour operators

Illegal tour operators in Bali are aggravating fully-licensed tour and travel operators via their printed tour offerings and Internet web sites.

Roving eTN reporter: Indonesia is hot for development or more of the same

There are many challenges facing Indonesia.

Bali remains a terror target, says former Bali police chief and candidate for governor

Bali's former chief of police and current gubernatorial candidate, I Made Mangku Pastika, has been quoted in a Sydney Morning Herald article by Mark Forbes saying that Bali remains a terror target.

Dubai assets see eastern promise

Rolling out a new project every week is the theme of the city of Dubai. It may sound fun and exciting.

Valuair starts evening flights to Medan

Beginning June 2, 2008, Valuair will offer three weekly morning and three evening flights to Medan instead of its current six times weekly morning flights. With this new flight schedule, passengers traveling to Medan can expect more convenience and connectivity.

US travel warning`s lifting to increase tourist visiting to Indoensia

Jakarta - The lifting of a US travel warning on Indonesia is expected to help increase the number of US tourist arrivals in the country in 2008, a presidential spokesman said.

"The lifting of the travel warning is something we have been waiting for a long time," Dino Pati Djalal said here on Monday in response to the lifting of the US ... read more

Luring 300,000 Chinese tourists to Indonesia is not easy

Hong Kong - The Indonesian Embassy in Beijing projected the number of Chinese tourists coming to Indonesia this year at 300,000, for which promotions are being conducted.

The campaign on Visit Indonesia Year (VIY) 2008 launched by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism in Jakarta since December last year, had been hailed by many circles in ... read more

Indonesia to appoint Dubai-based tourism agent

The Middle Eastern tourism market is growing in such importance that Indonesia's Ministry of Culture and Tourism is to announce the appointment of a local tourism promotion marketing company.

Bali tourism calls for open skies to bali

Bisnis Bali reports that the chairman of the Bali Tourism Board (BTB), Ida Bagus Nurjaya has called on the government to "open wide the tap" and allow foreign airlines access to Bali if current plans to increase the size of the Island's tourism sector are to be successful.

Indonesia courts Russian tourists

With more and more Russians eager to travel abroad, tourists are flocking to unexpected locations like Indonesia. And the Indone­sian government is doing everything it can to capitalize on this growing market of Russian tourists by inviting more of them.

System failure blamed for crash of budget airline in Indonesia

JAKARTA - Investigators found out that the Inertial Reference System (IRS) failure and the unsuccessful attempts of the pilots to recover it as the main cause of the crash of a plane of budget airline Adam Air that killed all 102 people on board in New Year in 2007 at the waters of central Indonesia, local media reported on Tuesday.

'Beat up' tourists: Islamic cleric

Firebrand Islamic cleric Abu Bakar Bashir has called on his young Indonesian followers to attack tourists - including Australians - in a fiery sermon.

In the talk given in October last year Bashir urges his followers to "beat up" western tourists, whom he likened to "worms, snakes and maggots", The Australian newspaper reported on ... read more

Indonesia: On the brink of "human flu pandemic?”

(eTN) - Describing the current bird flu situation in Indonesia as "critical,” the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (UNFAO) has warned the continuing outbreak could lead the virus to mutate and cause a "human influenza pandemic.”