On this site's various information pages BLTF tries to list
for you only the 100% legal and ethical business and web sites
connected with Bali & Lombok. If you know of a hotel,
villa, travel agent, tour operator, driver, etc. who can honestly
say they fulfill our criteria for being listed (below), please
let us have their details as it would be our honour to include
them.
Webmasters please note: This is NOT link
exchange. If you want to exchange reciprocal travel links,
you must go to our travel
links directory page and use the instant / automated listing
form found there.
BLTF Featured Sites Criteria:
1) Any business must be 100% legal; that is they must have
ALL the required licenses for a business of their type and
its operations in Bali (foreign licenses etc. are not valid
on their own); for example, villas would need to have a hotel
or melati operating license and, as applicable, liquor license,
vehicle tourism use license, spa license, etc. Also all businesses
listed with us must not be involved in any unlawful business
practices, such as operating a twin book accounting system
to avoid paying taxes. Drivers offering transport need to
have valid tourism licenses and have passenger insurance.
Car rental companies must provide well maintained, safe /
road worthy vehicles with excellent brakes and air conditioning,
plus full rental permits for their vehicles and limit the
CDW to US$100 or less. Finally, all staff must be properly
documented and working legally in Bali / Indonesia; all foreign
workers must have a valid KITAS.
2) The business must be 100% ethical; that is treating their
staff, suppliers and customers properly. For example, all
service charge money taken by hotels and villas must be given
to the staff and equally so; none should be taken by the senior
management. Suppliers and staff must be paid on time. Customers
must never be taken to a third party where a commission is
made if they buy anything. Businesses who have any connection
with the Suharto Family are excluded from being able to be
featured with BLTF. Businesses or their owners who have used
fraud in the past may not be featured with BLTF. BLTF can
not list any business who colludes with or in any way condones
and / or abuses the immensely corrupt authorities and / or
police and / or judiciary that exists in Indonesia.
3) Featured businesses must be 100% Balinese friendly; this
is they must not ever have done anything to hurt the people
or cultural rules of Bali. For example BLTF could not list
hotels such as Le Meridien Nirwana for being built overlooking
Tanah Lot (they received a highly contested permit despite
building regulations protecting temples), the Grand Bali Beach
for being taller than the highest coconut palm tree (this
building regulation was waived solely for this hotel), or
the Four Seasons in Sayan for being built too close to the
local temple against the express wishes of local Hindu Balinese
(again building regulations were apparently waived).
4) Their customers and their staff must come first. BLTF is
not interested in featuring any business who sent staff home
on half or no pay during hard times (such as directly after
the October 2002 terrorist bombings). BLTF also only want
to list businesses that put the best interests of their customers
first, for example; dive companies must have the highest standards
for instructors (which they must religiously enforce) and
provide the very best in decompression services. Reservation
agents & tour operators should either have bonded insurance
or maintain a bank guarantee scheme which 100% guarantees
the return of any customer payments made in advance in the
event the agent has financial and / or operational problems,
or allow the guest to pay the hotel / villas directly. BLTF
can not list marketing companies masquerading as travel agents.
If you are or know a business that fulfills the above criteria,
please BLTF know so they can be listed (for free - no strings)
on one of our pages.
Important
We will list ANY Bali / Lombok related business that
fulfills the above criteria with an indirect (cgi encoded)
URL link that will take people to their web site, e.g. http://travelforum.org/lnklite/to.cgi?l=google
Bali / Lombok related businesses / web sites who fulfill
our featured sites criteria AND are willing to link back to
us (from one of their web site's content pages - link exchange
pages do not qualify) using one of our graphics below, we
will provide a direct link to their domain / web site, e.g.
http://www.google.com/.
If you have a Bali and / or Lombok related web site that
meets the above "featured site" criteria and would
like us to link directly to your web site, please add one
(or more) of the following html graphic codes to one (or more)
of your web pages and then email us letting us know.
<a href="http://www.travelforum.org/bali/main.html"
title="Lombok and Bali Travel Forum"><img
src="http://www.travelforum.org/bali/pics/Bali-Travel-Forum1.jpg"
width="140" height="100" border="0"
alt="Lombok and Bali Travel Forum"></a>
<a href="http://www.travelforum.org/bali/main.html"
title="Lombok and Bali Travel Forum"><img
src="http://www.travelforum.org/bali/pics/Bali-Travel-Forum2.jpg"
width="140" height="60" border="0"
alt="Lombok and Bali Travel Forum"></a>
<a href="http://www.travelforum.org/bali/main.html"
title="Lombok and Bali Travel Forum"><img
src="http://www.travelforum.org/bali/pics/Bali-Travel-Forum3.jpg"
width="60" height="60" border="0"
alt="Lombok and Bali Travel Forum"></a>
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