“Construction of new hotel and villa in Bali has to be stopped� this agenda had been a serious topic in a meeting between Bali Tourism Authority and representation of Bali
tourism industry, yesterday (1/25/07). There are 52.000 hotel rooms in Bali and the daily arrival of visitors in Bali range from 3000 up to 4000 visitors. The great imbalance between the room availability and the arrival of visitors creates a low occupation rate, around 30% this month while to achieve a break event point the occupation rate should be higher than 35%. This situation will virtually lead many hotels into bankruptcy.

Apart from economical point of view, the construction of new hotel will also bring a serious damage to environment, socially and ecologically since the new hotel will likely to use productive soil in a rice field area as construction site for the sake of beautiful view rice field. The construction of new villa in Ubud, Kuta, and other tourism area will create a crowded
situation in these areas.

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