Lombok News

Local tradition of Bau Nyale which is usually holding annually takes place on upcoming February, 12. In this day local people are catching marine worms in the morning. It has been tradition of local fishermen in the southern Lombok as it has including to tourism calendar of this island. In East Lombok Regency, Bau Nyale takes place in Kaliantan Beach. Here it had prepared cultural festival and traditional sport of Sasak along the day until the dark. In Central Lombok regency, this tradition holds in Aan Cape and Selong Belanak beach. (more…)

Lombok International Airport (LIA) has operated actively, replacing the old Selaparang airport in Mataram. With the existence of this LIA hope that there will be more than suffice number of domestic and international tourists come visiting the island. (more…)

Up until August 2011 hotel rooms’ occupancy are full. MICE (Meeting, Incentive, Convention and Exhibition) scheduled to be hold in Lombok. Hotels in Sengigi and Gili Trawangan are full therefore sudden visit to those two area predicted will become quite difficult to get room still available. (more…)

Nusa Tenggara Barat (NTB) is having geodiversity resource suitable for geotourism development after they were determined as the geoheritage area. Among them are the volcanic sediment appeared from ocean depths and becoming hills along the coast of Middle Lombok. (more…)

Some giant billboard stand in several strategic locations filled with NTB tourism promotion of their VLS 2012 program. Among them is at the front of Soekarno-Hatta Airport Cengkareng, Ngurah Rai Airport Bali as well as other gateways to Indonesia. “The billboards installment will cooperate with private companies such as Newmont Nusa Tenggara and several government companies,” said head of NTB Tourism and Cultural Division, Gita Aryadi to the press yesterday. (more…)

Hotel occupancy rate (HOR) for stars hotel decreased 13.04 percent during January 2011. If it is compared with that December 2010 resulted 53.26 percent occupancy, then HOR in January 2011 merely 40.22 percent. Moreover, their length of stay also decreased, that was 2.52 day or lessened 0.24 percent from 2.76 days. Number of guests stayed also decrease up to 27.53 percent or from 26.953 people become 19.534 people. (more…)

Nusa Tenggara Barat (NTB) spreading their tourism promotion into Asia in order to gathered tourists from China and India. It is due to the potential number of Chinese come to Indonesia even though it just 14 percent of them or around 600 thousand per year. That number is bigger than Middle East tourists whose amount only ten of thousand. NTB is also targeting Australian augmentation due to its relatively closer location if compared with Europe. (more…)

Up to November 2010, number of tourists come to Nusa Tenggara Barat (NTB) had reached 662.717 people from 700 thousand target required this year. Hopes that in December 2010 the target can be fulfilled. But uncertain weather condition feared could disturbed tourists end of the year holiday, especially those who come from big cities in Java. (more…)

The development of tourism in NTB in the last two years received special attention from national tourism performer. It makes NTB become the sample area for local tourism development. (more…)

There are 18 participants consists of motorcycle taxi drivers and cidomo – buggy carter – and taxi driver in a story telling competition, about tourism object. The event held by NTB Cultural and Tourism Agency at Musem NTB yesterday. (more…)