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The Mayor of Denpasar I.B. Rai Dharmawijaya Mantra speak during the opening ceremony of dissemination of information about ‘Green Hotel’ policy and conferment of competency certificates for tourism labor, cooperative labor and entrepreneurs carried out in Denpasar on Thursday (Apr. 28). The speakers from left A.A. Gede Raka Dalem and I Wayan Gunawan
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Bobbi Kristina Brown, daughter of the late singer Whitney Houston, arrives with boyfriend Nick Gordon at the premiere of the new film ‘Sparkle’ in Hollywood August 16, 2012. Gordon said on Wednesday he tried to revive Brown after finding her in a bathtub last year.
Finding lifeless Bobbi Kristina was traumatizing, boyfriend says
LOS ANGELES - The boyfriend of Bobbi Kristina Brown said on Wednesday he tried to revive her after finding her in a bathtub last year in an incident that recalled the death of her mother, singer Whitney Houston. Nick Gordon also said Brown, who died in July 2015 at the age of 22 after suffering irreversible brain damage, became addicted to drugs after Houston’s death in 2012. Gordon, 26, denied responsibility for Brown’s death in interviews with the Daily Mail online on Wednesday and with U.S. television personality Dr. Phil to be aired Thursday and Friday. He said the couple had gotten into a fight the night before Brown was found in January 2015 and that when he arrived back at the Atlanta home they shared, she had been drinking and was “messed up.” They later made up and Gordon went to play a videogame.
A friend who was staying at the house later found Brown in the bathtub, Gordon said. “I ran to my room and then I saw my girl on the floor,” Gordon told the Daily Mail online. “It was so traumatizing. I dropped to my knees and kept giving her chest compressions and blowing into her mouth.” Gordon said Brown spat up some water. “I thought she was going to come round but that never happened,” he said. An could not establish whether the death ofBrown, the only child of Houston and R&B singer Bobby Brown, after six months in a coma was accidental or intentional. It
found she had cocaine, marijuana, alcohol and anxiety medication in her system and that her face had been immersed in water. In a 2015 civil lawsuit filed by the conservator of Brown’s estate, Gordon was accused of causing her death and stealing from her bank account while she was in a coma. Gordon’s spokesman has called the lawsuit “slanderous and meritless.” Gordon told Dr. Phil that Brown smoked marijuana socially before her mother died but that her drug use increased after Houston drowned in a Beverly Hills hotel bathtub in 2012. “It’s unfortunate but at the time, that’s kind of the only way we knew how to deal with what had happened,” Gordon said, according to advance excerpts of the TV interview. (rtr)
FGD on Wonderful Indonesia--(1)
Tourism Office urges hotels to apply ‘Green Hotel’ concept
The tourism sector has been growing rapidly and it has come to the attention of the government and tourism players that many travllers are interested in eco-friendly tourism faciltities. Tourist accommodations are vying to present a “go-green” concept in hotel management. The government has therefore issued a policy aimed at encouraging the tourism industry to apply this concept – including those operating in Denpasar. In fact, the Denpasar Tourism Office has begun to disseminate information about their ‘go-green’ program to a number of tourism businesses –such as hotels, encouraging them to apply eco-friendly practices to their operations.
During the official unveiling of the ‘green hotel’ policy on Thursday (Apr. 28), the Denpasar Tourism Office in cooperation with Bali Travel News (Bali Post Media Group) held a focus group discussion (FGD) on ‘Wonderful Indonesia’ with the theme ‘green
hotel’. Afterwards labor competency certificates in the field of tourism and business were given out in the Sewaka Dharma Building, Lumintang. The focus group presented three speakers; Prof. Dr. Putu Rumawan Salain, Dr. Ketut Sumadi, and A.A. Gede Raka Dalem. The discussion that was guided by I Gede Palgunadi was opened by the Mayor of Denpasar I.B. Rai Dharmawijaya Mantra. Chief of the Denpasar Tourism Office, I Wayan Gunawan, explained that according to their duties and functions as a government office, the Denpasar
Tourism Office has the task of providing guidance and oversight in relation to the tourism industry. One of the measures taken in the development of the tourism industry is to disseminate information about rules made by the central government. The tourism office is also obliged to encourage the local tourism industry to improve the quality of their services. Given the current trends and needs of tourism consumers, it would be best to direct tourism business management towards eco-friendly practices, he expalained adding that
this includes hotels that can apply the ‘green hotel’ concept. “We are trying to provide guidance about the central government’s ‘green hotel’ policy. The new policy has 10 criteria for ‘green hotels, but when viewed more closely there are in fact 12 or 13 criteria. Because of Bali’s unique qualities, we would like to have local wisdom included as the 13th criterion,” said Gunawan. For his part, A.A. Gede Raka Dalem, in his presentation explained more about the criteria that hotels need to meet in order to qualify as a green hotel. This former Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at Udayana University, revealed that in a survey conducted in the United States some time ago, 83 percent of travelers chose eco-friendly products. In other words, there is a far greater chance of attracting travelers by offering eco-friendly products and con-
versely it is difficult to attract tourists without offering such products. The criteria outlined as requirements for being considered a ‘green hotel’ are: the policies and organization of a green team, eco-friendly spatial management, use of eco-friendly raw materials and eco-friendly products, the use of local content, the management of conservation and energy efficiency, indoor and outdoor water quality management, solid and liquid waste management, enough green space around the building, pollution and noise control, adequate storage and management of chemicals and hazardous materials, cooperation with the local community and organizations, efforts to preserve local culture and biodiversity and the development of human resource capacities by increasing employee and hotel guest awareness about the concept of ‘eco-friendly hotel’. (ara)