Explore Bali-Lombok from Accor

Special offer from a group of international hotel operator in the Asia-Pacific region, Accor Group for tourists apparently responded well worth it. Explore Bali-Lombok is certainly an attractive offer to tempt, because tourists are taken around to enjoy a variety of specific and unique beauty of each location visited.

Explore Bali-Lombok offers a chance to win exciting raffle with lots of prizes, a free ticket to watch the Kecak dance at Uluwatu; learn to make pottery in Jenggala Ceramics, Jimbaran; rafting; tour to Ubud, and others.

And of course other opportunities such as the chance of getting a chance to win a monthly prize draw free stay for two nights at a participating Accor hotel network in the bidding program.

Accor Group involving a lot of their hotels, such as the Pullman Bali Legian Nirwana, The Royal Beach Seminyak Bali-MGallery Collection, Nusa Dua Bali Villas Amarterra-MGallery Collection, Novotel Bali Benoa, Novotel Bali Nusa Dua, Novotel Lombok, Mercure Resort Sanur, and Mercure Bali Nusa Dua looks serious pampering the tourists.

Special program titled "Explore" give an unforgettable experience. This was conveyed by Adi Satria, Regional Director Sales Marketing & Distribution for Accor Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, citing an article from the travelKompas.

The program also includes Explore Malaysia offers a travel package, guests will be served from the beginning, from the moment they stepped off the plane easier to reserve a room, without the need to worry about anything.

Interesting programs to the tourists, so they increasingly have more reasons to keep coming and explore the tourist attractions of Bali-Lombok and of course Malaysia.

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(Source Accor Group, travelKompas /Image Veronica Saver)

At.Mosphere, The Highest Restaurant In The World

A writer who settled in the city of Dubai, United Arab Emirates write her experience one day when she enjoyed a dinner at the At.Mosphere Restaurant located in Downtown Dubai, which is the designation for the town center area.

Special atmosphere when she got there, the valet parking officer immediately asked key car to park your vehicle. Valet services provided as a free service of the restaurant.

At.Mosphere restaurant is touted as the world's highest restaurant located on the 122 floor height of 442 meters of the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa.

Options available to guests, The Lounge - with a choice of a variety of drinks and snacks, while accompanied by soft music, and The Grill - an option for you to enter the area of fine dining restaurants in At.Mosphere Grill, tasting menus are available.

Entrees ranging from “Foie Gras” to the “King Crab Ravioli” or directly to the main menu, you can try the “Rib Eye Steak” (340 dirhams) with a very soft texture of the meat. Or maybe try the “Wagyu Beef Tomawak” (800 dirhams) with an Asian stomach portion size.

Side dishes, namely “Confit Garlic & Mushroom Sauce” and “Potatoes Puree” will completing this course. There are several choices of sauce and others. Even for the vegetarian menu is available a choice of salad or vegetarian dumplings and also for the seafood fans menu options.

What about dessert? “122 Sphere” (95 dirhams) - that corresponds to the name of the restaurant that was on the floor 122. Brown dome-shaped dish with a sprinkling of nut pecans nut, as if to hide creamy vanilla ice cream and espresso, and chocolate mousse inside.

Seems that we want to try it too.

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(Source Asih Wulansari @ woewland - travelKompas /Image At.Mosphere - Dubai)

Sitting in the Middle Seat on the Plane?

The tendency of some airlines that offer online tickets making some passengers get the opportunity to select the desired seats, but giving impact on another passenger that sitting in the middle seat.

When we positioned in the two rows of seats maybe it is not a problem, but it becomes less fun when the plane seat models like the 3-3 seats in the economy class types, such as the Boeing 737 or the general 2-4-2 in economy class Airbus-330 or Boeing 747 -340 aircraft type. How do we fix this?

1. Avoid middle seats. Of course this is the first way since being the check-in counter. So as not to feel too cramped in between two people, is to avoid the middle seat. As noted above, take advantage of online check-in to select the seat you want at no extra charge, it is found on some airlines.

2. Bring music gadget players. Listening to music through headphones. Can also prepare books, snack or maybe sleep.

3. Use the table in front of the chair to sleep. Use the front folding table as a bed. And the jacket into a pillow. Or sleeping in an upright position in your chair, use a pillow or rolled-up the jacket as a divider and head restraint. Reverse the seat backrest and noticed the passenger behind you.

4. Become the first into the aircraft cabin. Being on the front row before the call goes into aircraft (boarding). Lower the seat shoulder and place your hands on both shoulders that seat. To secure your area.

5. To the toilet. Although you had to be willing to get up when there are other people who want to go to the toilet. For yourself forced to reduce sugary drinks, so as not to rear room (toilet).

6. Give relief to your feet. Ask the passenger in front of you politely if you want to relief your feet, to advance seat backrest.

Although the trip is still long, there is always a variety of remedies. Not a problem in the middle seat.

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(Source NL Made Pertiwi - travelKompas, F Suryawan - Singapore /Image Garuda Indonesia)

1 World Trade Center, the tallest building in the United States

Something new in New York, if you choose this city as a travel destination. Skyscraper buildings, the splendor things presented in front of the eyes. But, there are many stories in this great city.

Happened a long period of debate after the destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, the parties associated with the construction of a new building proposals, such as that administered by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation.

Long period until finally approved the construction of a new building, One World Trade Center also called 1 WTC, or the Freedom Tower. 104-storey tall building will be opened to the public in 2014 and became one of the tallest buildings in the world.

Building height is calculated from the height of the structure until the construction of the crown and the "spire".

The crown that was in One World Trade Center New York is the last to be completed, and the building was the tallest building in the United States or the sixth-highest in the world with a height of 541.3 meters.

Completeness of 124.3 meter high tower with 800 tons weights which also serves as a transmitting antenna for television and radio channels.

Wednesday, May 1, 2013 ago, seen some "spire" component parts that made of iron has been appointed to the construction site for immediate installation. Only weather and strong winds are capable of delaying the workers, but they remain patient. Authorities at the Port Authority has not yet determined when the erection of these components will be done.

Of course the public will be patiently waiting for something new, by 2014 towards the final stages of exterior and interior completion throughout the building.

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(Source nydailynews, T Diela - Kompas /Image OneWTC)

The new 3-star hotel in Seminyak

A 3 star hotel present in Seminyak, Swiss-Belinn Seminyak, Bali. They come with a 122 Deluxe room types, 43 Superior Deluxe, 26 Grand Deluxe and 5 Suites, features well suited for families. Services and facilities of international standard with network management support from 120 hotels and resorts in various countries in Asia such as China, Vietnam, Philippina, Australia and even the Middle East.

Eclectic style new hotel offers a variety of facilities, among others, a meeting room that can accommodate more than 300 people, lobby lounge and bar, and the coffee shop.

Hotels vary in completeness meeting, the MICE facility (meetings, incentive, convention, event) and business as well as the preferred means of accommodation for tourists who come on holiday to Bali.

Guests are pampered with a swimming pool, spa, and fitness center, coffee and tea making facilities, WIFI facilities for guests who always wants to connect to the internet, which reaches the entire room.

A time to walk along Jalan Sunset Road, Seminyak, you will see the hotel. Something different and the aura of the natural environment in a southern region of Bali with its beautiful Petitenget Beach.

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Swiss-Belinn Seminyak

Jl. Sunset Road No. 88 S
Seminyak, Bali
Indonesia

Phone: (62-361) 780 9438
Fax: (62-361) 780 9437
E-mail: rso-bali@swiss-belhotel.com

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(Source Seminyak Hotels Bali, travelKompas /Image Swiss-Belinn Hotel)

Around the World while GoogleMapping

You want to travel to a tourist destination? How about trying first look of the latest Google Maps? In a developer conference I/O in San Francisco, USA, Wednesday, May 15, 2013 seen the new changes.

If interested in a specific location in a hemisphere, immediately go to the map service. Interface displays a large map, fill the screen in a window browser, the whole area is now an interactive vector-based map.

More information is available at the time we want to find a point on the globe, such as points of interest around the location or the best way to go there.

Say we are interested in a beach location, then immediately given information related to the beach and other nearby locations.

In the latest version of Google Maps there is something special with its integrated services, site review Zagat, Google Earth and Streetview are included in the interaction map.

With Streetview increasingly attractive option and you will be satisfied with all of the information presented. Like the tagline given "Discover more with every click."

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(Source O Yusuf - teknoKompas, Google Maps /Image Google Maps)

MICE Tourism in Singapore

There is something of interest shown by the Singapore Tourism Board (STB), that the trend of foreign tourists coming to the island apparently belongs to the category of business travelers and MICE who come to Singapore reached 3.2 million in 2011.

Singapore is certainly very concerned about this case, the major contribution of the sector, business travelers and MICE (meetings, incentive, convention and exhibition) shows a 2.6 percent increase over 2010.

Even according to the Regional Director of ASEAN (Islands) and Oceania, Singapore Tourism Board, Kenneth Lim in Jakarta, May 15, 2013, citing travelKompas news, positive notes further describe the first nine months of 2012, business visits and MICE reached 2.5 million tourists .

Travelers from Indonesia who contributed the most travelers to visit Singapore, reaching 35 percent for business travelers and MICE.

"So MICE activities contributed significantly to Singapore's tourism," said Lim.

The "Travel Rave" is a kind of Asian tourism festival to be one of MICE activities in Singapore, when, tourism industry players are invited to share their knowledge.

Singapore is attractive and still a popular destination for incentive programs for companies in the Southeast Asian region.

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(Source NL Made Pertiwi - travelKompas, J Wiryawan - Singapore /Image Lucy Pandjaitan)