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Denpasar plans to add hotel rooms
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The view of Sanur beach that surround by hotels in Denpasar City, Bali Island. Denpasar plan to add more hotel rooms to accomodate the increasing numbers of tourists that visit this capital city of Bali.
PAGE 12 Denpasar (Bali Post)â Moratorium or suspension of the construction of tourist accommodation in three regions such as Badung, Gianyar and Denpasar City means nothing. Even, Denpasar remains to widely open the opportunities for investors to build hotels in the culture-based city.
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Head of Denpasar Government Tourism Office, Putu Budiasa, said that so far Denpasar still lacked of some 1,000 rooms. It was based on the high number of tourists staying in the city especially during the peak seasons. The hotel room availability at this time came to some 7,500 rooms,
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room demand in Denpasar, it does not necessarily mean we liberate all areas to be built with a hotel. At the moment, the open area for hotel construction is location around the Jalan Gatot Subroto and Jalan Mahendradatta,â he explained. The measure was also implemented to balance the tourist area in Denpasar. In consequence, the tourism area in Denpasar was not focused on particular areas. âWe in Denpasar respect the moratorium because it is intended for an even distribution of the development,â he said. Continued on page 6
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consisting of 3,500 rooms of star hotel and 4,000 rooms of budget hotel. They were still considered inadequate. âWe often see that in certain seasons the hotels are over-booking,â said Budiasa when contacted on Monday (Jan 9). Bali Government had imposed
a moratorium to balance the development in Bali, but Budiasa impressed to ignore the rules by reason of lacking of hotel rooms. âIndeed, the moratorium has been enforced. But, in fact we in Denpasar still need more hotel rooms to accommodate tourists,â he said. Budiasa mentioned that not all areas in Denpasar could be built a hotel to meet the shortage of rooms. For example, continued Budiasa, it was no longer allowed to build hotels in Sanur area becoming one of the tourist resorts in Denpasar. âAlthough we still open the opportunity to meet the hotel
PESHAWAR â A bomb targeting a militia opposed to the Pakistani Taliban exploded in a market close to the Afghan border Tuesday, killing 25 people in the deadliest blast in the country in several months, ofďŹcials said. The explosion, likely detonated by remote control, hit vehicles being used by the militia in the Khyber region, said local security ofďŹcer Khan Dad Khan. It also wounded 24 people, said local government ofďŹcial Iqbal
Khan. Shopkeeper Sharif Gul said the blast ignited a huge ďŹre. âPeople were burning,â he said at a hospital in Peshawar, the main town in the northwest. âThere was nothing to put out the ďŹre.â The army has supported the formation of anti-Taliban militias in northwest Pakistan, but the insurgents have ruthlessly attacked the groups over the last two years. Many of the countryâs bloodiest bombings have been against militia members or their families. Continued on page 6
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Pakistani school girls and pedestrian move away from the site of a bomb blast in Peshawar on January 3, 2012. Another bomb blasted on Tuesday, January 10, 2012.