In Reply to: promotions on behlaf of travel to Bali posted by TonyN on Tuesday, 26. September 2006 at 03:37 Bali Time:
The only promotions I see for Bali is in the deals offered in the Sunday papers. Not nearly enough I believe.
The media, as usual, only broadcast the negative stories about anywhere you may wish to visit, unless of course they are being paid for it, or there may be a free follow-up to it.
The other problem is that "we" tend to see any reports in our own cultural light and impose "our" values on it, not that of the country in focus. If you don't like their culture, don't go there. If their regulations are too harsh for you, don't break their rules. Thats seems pretty clear to me.
I must say also that we get plenty of "anti" reactions when we tell people that we are going back to Bali, because of these media reports and responses, but who wants to spend a holiday with such narrow- minded people anyway.
Australian ,54 & 49