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My Interview with Business World Online

In recent Bali reports that following criticism and input from a number of sources insisting Bali’s environment is under severe threat, the Provincial Government of Bali has decided to refuse new permits for hotels, homestays and new Bali villas in all regencies and cities on the island with effect from Wednesday, April 8, 2009. The goverment has announced the major change in policy, saying: “This moratorium is not yet a part of a provincial law or a governor’s decree. The plan is that the moratorium will remain in place without a time limit. However, hotel developments holding permits issued before 2009 will be permitted to continue.”

With estimates that the number of hotels and in legal and illegal villas is around 50,000 rooms when the ideal total is believed to be 25,000 making the over-supply of hotel and other accommodation renders requests for new projects on an island as small as Bali non-relevant. Yes its true that during high season all hotel and villas in Bali are fully booked. Although we are entering a global crisis as i told Business World Online but our company Bali Villas Network still continue to have lots of request for private villa rental through our main website Balebali.com.

Yes the development of villas and hotel in Bali especially the one using swimming pools and paved-over land disrupt the intricate irrigation system that waters the famous rice terraces that spread from Bali’s volcanic interior to the seaside. This villas property is true making the land more and more squeeze and other’s fact that the demand for villas is pushing up land prices prices and with them, land taxes also increased, this leave nothing for the farmer except selling the land to highest bidder.

Land sales and construction of luxury villas have increased 30 % every year since 2003, mainly due to demand from well-off Western Europeans and Asians. In some point the emerging private villas in Bali is adding a different option to have your holiday but in some way the villa constructi