In Reply to: Not so sure about that - apparently the posted by Zabowskee on Friday, 27. February 2009 at 14:52 Bali Time:
Japanese owned hotels, use Japanese tour companies, do their shopping in the Japanese owned duty free shops at Bali Galleria so a lot of their money is not getting into the local economy. And they stay for shorter periods of time.
There's a lot of work to be done on infrastructure before Bali can become more exclusive. A lot of potholes and smelly drains to be fixed