Rebuilding Paradise
Tuesday, January 21, 2003
Bali was one of the high spots in Indonesia before Amrozi and his friends allegedly decided to blow up two popular nightclubs in Legian on October 12 last year. Hotels were enjoying high occupancy rates and Bali's beautiful beaches were swarmed with holiday makers.
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The bomb blasts at the Sari Club and Paddy's Bar that killed 192 people, however, changed all that. Suddenly Bali came to a standstill. The image of the so-called Island of the Gods as an international tourist paradise was blown to pieces. Tourist arrivals plummeted, sending the island's economy into a freefall. Massive cancellations of hotel room bookings brought down Bali hotels' occupancy rates to a record low of 11 percent on average. "
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