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Arak17 wrote:

Thank you Fred your Comments are awesome, maybe I need to talk to you two on PM about this if you please. your experiences and years of living there is interesting.

I prefer the open forums so everyone can see the questions and answers.

Ubudian wrote:

I鈥檓 simply conveying the thoughts and attitudes of the many expats I know, as well as my own Balinese family, who are involved in the tourism industry here in Bali.聽 I don鈥檛 know anyone who is even remotely thinking about changing their businesses, or expanding them to cater to the Chinese market.

I hope that Bali will not try to target more tourists from Mainland China. I travel a lot, and one of the worst things is finding that you are staying at a hotel full of Mainland Chinese tourists or visiting the same places as them. I'm talking about their loud voices, lack of manners, not understanding the concept of queuing, throwing litter everywhere, spitting on the ground, loud burping, etc etc etc. In fact, in many of the places where I travel overseas the locals that I know or meet often grumble about tourists from China. Taiwanese tourists are far better behaved and I have no objection to more coming to Bali.

So while targeting Mainland Chinese tourists may earn restaurants and hotels lots of money, I pray that their numbers will not increase in Bali. It would be sad to visit Bali and hear Chinese being spoken everywhere.

abdulkhalil wrote:

I believe you, and I've seen it in other parts of Asia, but not sure that it's alright to speak so strongly here, as it is bordering on racism.

Yogi tends to be direct and call things as he sees them and, as a Yorkshireman, I tend to like direct with no beating about the bush.
He specifically mentions the low end of the industry rather than all of any group, thus negating the racist comment (IMHO).
There is one word I'm unsure is reasonable so an edit to remove that might be a good idea.

Fred wrote:

I often wonder how the staff manage to deal with such cretins without resorting to spanking them over the head with an iron bar.

The reason is TripAdvisor. TripAdvisor is EVERYTHING to a hotel and if a staff member is named in a review then it's seriously bad news for them. In Indonesia they hold national competitions for best front desk hotel staff. I've seen these before and the situations they are put in in these competitions which are held in front of an audience is brutal. I've seen front desk staff from big hotels go to pieces and cry on stage because of the brutality of the attacks by pretend guests, often three at a time all shouting and making outrageous accusations and demands. The winner obviously does well for themselves.

abdulkhalil wrote:

Fred wrote:

I often wonder how the staff manage to deal with such cretins without resorting to spanking them over the head with an iron bar.

The reason is TripAdvisor.

I find the best way to get great service is simply to be nice, polite and smile.
I can't understand noisy fools who demand, threaten and are generally nasty to people.
As for review sites, if they have that much power something is out of order but I make a point of posting honest reviews when I visit a place, that commonly including how nice the staff were because聽 it's very rare they aren't.