Raja Ampat is a 43.000 km2 island and has more than 610 islands, located at the west-side of Papua, Irian Jaya and its famous for diving. Here you can find more than 540 type of reefs, 1000 type of reef’s fish, and 750 types of mollusk. It means, Raja Ampat offer 75% of world’s reef. Healthy with unusual reef structure dive spot with the most diverse marine is the best way to express the beauty of Raja Ampat.

Here you’ll witness other unique species such us pigmy seahorse, webbegong, manta ray and endemic fish called eviota raja (king eviota). One of the best spot is Chicken Reef; youll surrounded by thousand of fish, bamboo shark and snappers. There just too many species to be named in Raja Ampat, just come and experience all the glories of Raja Ampat.

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Come and See the Biggest and Most Complete Diving, Adventure Travel and Water Sports Expo. The First in Indonesia!

SEMANGGI EXPO JAKARTA , 29 MARCH to 1 APRIL 2007, EXHIBITION OPENS FROM 10.00 a.m. to 20.00 p.m.

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Asia Dive Expo (ADEX) 2007 gears up for another winning international dive show in Bangkok, Thailand this year as key dive industry stakeholders snap up exhibition spaces. With an influx of new exhibitors and with existing exhibitors significantly increasing their booth presence, organiser Suntec Integrated Media (SIM) is confident that the Asia Dive Expo 2007 (ADEX), which will be held on 27-29 April 2007 at BITEC Bang-na in conjunction with Boat Thai, will be bigger and better than ADEX 2005 when the show was held in Bangkok. This increase in the number of world-class companies taking up booths at ADEX 2007 also promises to attract a larger pool of quality visitors.
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The Indonesian community including students in Brisbane and other areas in Australia`s state of Queensland hoped national flag carrier Garuda Indonesia would resume its Denpasar-Brisbane route which has been closed since 13 January, 2007, an Indonesian student figure has said.

“We are concerned over the closure of Garuda`s Denpasar-Brisbane route as of January 13, 2007, president of the Indonesian Students Association at University of Queensland, Nur Iswanto, said here Thursday.
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The very first Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report prepared by the World Economic Forum was published with overall results presented in summary at the international travel forum ITB in Berlin on Thursday, March 8, 2007, reports balidiscovery.com

An exhaustive survey that compared nations in terms of factors that make a country attractive to tourism resulted in a hierarchical ranking of 124 countries. Switzerland, Austria and Germany finished in the top 3 countries for tourism, with Angola, Burundi and Chad occupying the lowest 3 rankings in the list. Also finishing among the top 10 nations (in order of appearance) were Iceland, the U.S.A., Hong Kong, Canada, Singapore, Luxembourg and the U.K.

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