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Temple Ceremony
 SEMINYAK
– Villa Kubu "The Luxury
of Privacy" on Tuesday, 14
March (Anggarakasih Kulantir Purnama
Kesanga Full Moon, which felled
on the 9th month of the Balinese
Calendar, carried out an odalan/ceremony
at the temple. All staff and family
members attended the ceremony. The
ceremony was opened with a small
purification by a local priest and
was continued by praying together
lead by Gede Sukarta, the GM of
Villa Kubu and ended with megibung
(having meal together to keep a
good relationship and prosperity
for all together). (BTN/*)
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USA’s
Students
 DENPASAR
- On March 7, five students taking
SIT (School for International Training)
Study Abroad program from USA got
a lecturer on "Cultural Tourism
in The Era of Uncertainty"
at Udayana University, Bali. Resource
person for this lecture was A.A.Gde
Raka Dalem, a lecturer in Tourism
Postgraduate Program from this university,
who is also the deputy chairperson
of the Tri Hita Karana Tourism Awards
as well as a certified facilitator
of an international sustainable
tourism certification, Green Globe
21. Raka Dalem on his paper stressed
out that besides economic benefits
derived from development of cultural
tourism in Bali, also some negative
impacts need to be prevented; otherwise
sustainability of tourism in Bali
may be hardly achieved. (BTN/028)
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Russian
Fam Trip
 KUTA
- On 28th Feb – 2nd March,
Discovery Kartika Plaza Hotel &
Villas hosted the Russian Fam (familiarize)
Trip, arranged by Nustra Tours &
Travel and escorted by Mr. I Nyoman
Bandisa Sastika – Senior Sales
Manager of the hotel. This was the
2nd fam trip from Petropolitana
in St. Petersburg as a product refreshment
after the 1st fam trip on 1999.
Petropolitana is an agent for Bali
with regular flights using Air France,
KLM & Lufthansa. The group was
hosted during breakfast and afterwards
made a site inspection. (BTN/*)
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Minister
Visited Bali Tropic Resort &
Spa
 TAJUNG
BENOA - Jro Wacik the Minister of
Culture & Tourism, visited Bali
Tropic Resort & Spa recently,
the Minister made a short conversation
with guests to gettheir comment
about Bali. Using this opportunity,
Dr. Jro Gede Karang Suarshana MBA,
Managing Director of Bali Tropic
Resort & Spa explained about
his coral plantation project. Show
in the picture: Dr. Jro Gede Karang
MBA (in the middle), accompanied
by Mr. Nyoman Aryadana, Executive
Assistant Manager. (BTN/*)
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Workshop
Notebook
 DENPASAR
- Seagate Technology in cooperation
with Terra Computer and PT Balisoft
Lintasmedia carried out a Seminar
and Workshop themed "Axioo Day:
Workshop Bedah Notebook", Wednesday
(22/3) at Hotel Nikki, Denpasar. The
Workshop aimed to make an effort to
minimize the digital gap on Technology
Information and was attended by some
speakers like Gita S. Wijaya, Marketing
Communication Manager, PT. Terra Computer
System with the article themed "Axioo
Product Updates". YM Lee, Seagate
Regional Field Application Manager,
themed "Seagate Product Updates",
Dibia Abduh, Seagate Channel Relationship
Manager themed "Seagate Academic
Program", Sandy Kusuma, Director
PT. Balisoft Lintas Media with themed
"Personal Area Network: Optimalization
usage of Notebook" and I Nyoman
Parwata, Sales Engineer PT. Terra
Computer System that announced "Bedah
Workshop Bedah Notebook". (BTN/dot)
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Meet
Local Encounter
 UBUD
– On March 20, a couple living
in New Zealand, Mrs. Debra Dempster
(Debbie) and her husband Nick, joined
the ‘meet local encounter’
program at Alila Ubud hotel, a program,
which gives a chance to the guest
to meet the local resource person
and discuss about Bali, especially
about their point of interest on Bali,
tourism and Balinese culture which
is based on the Tri Hita Karana philosophy.
(BTN/028)
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Students
from Holland
 KUTA
- On Friday, March 17, a group of
24 students from the CHN University
Holland visited Hotel Santika Beach
Bali as a part of their school exchange
program. The purpose of this visit
was to know the operation at the
Eastern Hospitality Industry. In
Bali, they will spend 5 weeks to
visit different hotels and villas.
Prior going to Bali, they have spent
almost 5 weeks to visit hotels and
resorts in Bangkok - Thailand. They
were welcomed at the hotel’s
conference room, continued by a
house tour around the hotel premises
in order to learn more about the
facilities and services of Beach
hotels in Bali. They were very impressed
with hotel’s surrounding, beautiful
gardens and friendly staffs. Seen
in the picture: some of Dutch Students
were enjoying walking on the reflexology
pathway in the garden of Hotel Santika
Beach Bali. (BTN/*)
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