In Reply to: which way is bali heading posted by geoffd on Friday, 27. February 2009 at 14:09 Bali Time:
going to price themselves out of the tourist market. they may just shift focus to a more up market market. not just a $2.00 t-shirt crowd.
They have a large contingency of Japanese, Russian and Korean tourists who will happily pay more for hotels, food, shopping etc.
Budget travellers will always be welcomed but may now have to stay budget, not places like the Kartika, Padma, Bali Garden, even Kumala Pantai and Jayakarta for such low costs as they have been accustomed to.
I will pay more to be comfortable, it is still a very inexpensive holiday.