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Creative Holidays Bali Bonanza

Creative Holidays has gone mad! As Bali continues to be in high demand with Australian travellers, Creative Holidays is offering a fantastic opportunity to earn 500 World Rewards points.

Andrew Yell, general manager, sales, marketing and product, Creative Holidays said, “Bali is an incredibly diverse, great value destination which, with the continued support of the travel industry and consumers, will remain a favourite holiday destination for Australians.
This offer is great for everyone – our agent partners are rewarded for their hard work and loyalty and clients make fantastic savings.”

Creative Holidays’ Bali Bonanza is fantastic value and agents should ensure their clients do not miss out on this incredible opportunity, as well as earn themselves bonus World Reward points.

Creative Holidays’ is offering to stay a minimum of seven nights at the Hard Rock Hotel Bali and earn 500 bonus points per booking. Valid for all room types. Valid for sale until 31 August 2008. Valid for travel from the 1 - 27 September 2008.

OR

Stay a minimum of five nights at Novotel Nusa Dua Hotel and Residences and earn 500 bonus points per booking. Valid for two and three Bedroom Residences. Valid for sale and travel until 31 October 2008.

World Rewards is the Australian Travel Industry’s longest operating incentive program for travel consultants. World Rewards offers an expansive range of rewards to choose from ranging from movie passes, to electrical items and holidays.

Creative Holidays is Australia’s leading independent holiday company with a range of holidays to suit everyone, especially those who enjoy the independence and flexibility of planning their own holiday.

Source: http://www.etravelblackboard.com/

Add comment July 25th, 2008

Bali guests made of the write stuff

The Ubud Writers and Readers Festival in Bali has scored a coup this year by luring best-selling authors Vikram Seth and John Berendt to head its line-up of participants.

Indian-born Seth leapt to international fame in 1993 with the publication of his extraordinary novel, A Suitable Boy, a sweeping 1400-page saga set in post-independence India.

Berendt, former editor of New York magazine and long-time Esquire columnist, sold 2.7 million hardback copies of his first book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. The book portrays an array of zany locals in the southern city of Savannah and their reaction to a scandalous midnight shooting and subsequent trial.

Other writers to take part in this year’s Ubud festival include Ceylon-born Nury Vittachi, Mexican author Alberto Ruy-Sanchez, Indonesian writer Andrea Hirata, Australian Alexis Wright, 2007 Man Booker Price short-listed writer Indra Sinha and three dynamic Chinese women authors — Geling Yan, Lijia Zhang and Fan Wu.

Collision of Cultures will be a theme of the 2008 program, with established and emerging writers confronting the issues of “us” and “them”. The Ubud festival, now in its fifth year, was started in 2004 by Australian author and Bali resident Janet de Neefe with the aim of boosting business and tourism after the 2002 Bali bombings.

With the help of a tiny staff and an army of dedicated volunteers, de Neefe has had remarkable success in attracting top Western and Asian writers to Ubud, such as Amitav Ghosh, Kiran Desai, Michael Ondaatje and Richard Flanagan.

Last year Harper’s Bazaar listed the Ubud event as one of the six best literary festivals in the world.

The six-day festival will run from October 14-19.

MARGOT LANG

Source: http://www.thewest.com.au/

Add comment July 25th, 2008