by | January 16th, 2003
I found a local travel trade magazine while exchanging money (more tips on exchanging money later) this avo called Bail Travel News. The tourism director of Bali set some goals for number of tourists to Indonesia in 2003. The numbers are way less than 2002, but he is optimistic.
Top Six Arrival by Nationality (it doesn’t say what the numbers mean like 000 or what, but you get the idea)
1 - 6.633 - Japanese
2 - 3.685 - Aussies
3 - 2.645 - Germany
4 - 2.175 - Taiwan
5 - 1.547 - Yanks
6 - 1.545 - POMs
I found these numbers interesting and surprising. In my mind, Aussies would have been number 1. Good to see Taiwan and Japanese make the top 5.
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Hi Sean,
Just wanted to let you know that travel agents here in Western Australia are starting to advertise specials to Bali.
Prices starting from just A$549 for airfare and 4 nights accommodation. What a bargain!!!! So I think it won’t be long until the aussies start heading back to Bali. After all how long can they resist the temptation to return to such a tropical paradise.
Cheers
Cindy
Hi Sean and Nick,
Ummm, whats a POM?
My wife and I are returning to Bali this summer, on the way to her sister’s wedding in Jakarta. Another of her sisters lives at Nusa Dua. Its a small world, I have a cousin that lives in Eugene too.
I’ve been watching your site for a while now, but I have to say that I am at a loss at explaining just what it is exactly that you folks are doing there.
Cheers!
Paul
Hi Paul,
A Pom is an old term the British used to call us Aussies when we were all convicts. It supposed to stand for “Prisoner of Mother England”.
But since we ended up with the sunshine, great beaches, and huge tracts of land, we reckon it’s those poor folks stuck back in ol’ Blighty that are the prisoners. So now a Pom is a term for an Englishman, just like a Yank is a term for anyone from the US.
Thanks Chris, kind of like reversing the term on them.
Learn something new everyday!
Paul
>I’ve been watching your site for a >while now, but I have to say that I am >at a loss at explaining just what it >is exactly that you folks are doing >there.
Good question Paul - well - we are building “BootsnAll’s one-stop travel guide to Bali, Indonesia”. That covers lots of different things of course. We are still learning exactly what it will be.
Does that answer your question?
Hi Sean,
Kind of
Is it to be an online kind of thing or some kind of printed material?
I’ve always thought a printed travel guide to be out of date before the ink dries.
Paul
We agree with you on the printed guide, Paul. We much prefer online info as it’s more instant and you can cull from a larger array of sources. Plus we come from an environmentally aware state (Oregon) and we like to save the trees.
Hi Chris,
I used to live in Eugene and Corvallis too and currently I am living on the Olympic Peninsula, west of Seattle. Olympic National Park is my backyard and playground
Your idea is interesting, kind of a ‘letters from the front’ thing? Daily dynamic content? What’s hot, what’s not?
Paul
Paul,
Yeah - no tree cutting and sharing info and resources with travelers.
Here is what we are about….we encourage travelers to share info and resources with each other because when we traveled, we did and loved it.
Now that we have been at this for 4 years, we want to keep living it. Not just preaching it like some wuss. In fact, we always try to practice. For example, we have the BootsnAll hostel and have had dozens of people stay over and share our home. Now Nick is taking it to the next level. He’s getting out there to share and experience it himself.
Good question.
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