Aqua Expeditions intends to begin welcoming back travellers aboard its ocean explorer yacht Aqua Blu in the coming days. Indonesian residents will be the first to set sail on the luxury yacht starting 22 August 2020 on a seven-night Komodo National Park Cruise. Additional itinerary departures are scheduled for 29 August and 5 September 2020.

A new luxury haven cocooned within a private enclave and surrounded by rice terraces, tropical forest and a private waterfall has launched in Bali. Nirjhara, Sanskrit for “waterfall”, is located minutes from Bali’s stunning Tanah Lot temple, a revered sanctuary for followers of the Hindu faith, just 15 minutes from Canggu and 30 minutes from Seminyak.

Coral Expeditions has mapped out a series of seven expeditions to the exotic East Indies exploring the small islands as Misool in Raja Ampat, Alor in the Lesser Sundas and Buton in Sulawesi.

The Apurva Kempinski Bali has launched 43 private villas, nestled in tropical gardens on the clifftops of Nusa Dua. The one-, two- and three-bedroom pool villas evoke the tropical characteristics of southern Bali, offering visitors complete privacy, spacious indoor-outdoor living and a delectable flavour of Balinese life.

A beachside village in the jungle of Sumba, Indonesia has been earmarked as the location for a new five-star boutique retreat hotel named Alamayah. Derived from the words ‘mayah’ (grandmother) and ‘alam’ (nature), the holistic escape shares the island with one of the last flourishing prehistoric tribes on the planet.

Abercrombie & Kent is entering the Indonesia market for the first time with a new journey from Bali to the Komodo and Moyo Islands. The adventure takes travellers off the beaten track into Bali’s interior where tropical plantations, fast-flowing rivers, crater lakes, volcanoes and mystical temples dot the landscape. Hiking, cycling and canoeing excursions reveal the Bali of old with accommodation in glorious plantation villas.

Aqua Expeditions has unveiled its much-hyped new luxury cruise additions will include the company’s first coastal ship, Aqua Blu, and long-range expedition-class yacht, Aqua Nera.

Class-leading boutique luxury cruise line Aqua Expeditions is set to diversify its business operations and enter the coastal cruise market in the fourth quarter of 2019, after operating as a river cruise line for the past 12 years.

W Hotels Worldwide is adding a second property in Bali. The group will develop a new property in Ubud, complementing W Bali – Seminyak which opened in 2010.

Kempinski Hotels will open its second property in Indonesia, The Apurva Kempinski Bali, on 1 February 2019. The brand new property will debut in the upmarket Nusa Dua area of Bali, with 475 well-appointed guestrooms, suites and discreet villas (60% of which have plunge pools) in a quiet beachfront setting. Six restaurants, bars and lounges. An immersive ocean-facing spa and fitness centre offers treatments inspired by traditional Balinese healing practices, to promote balance and wellbeing.

AYANA Hotels has officially opened the first five-star resort on the island of Flores in Indonesia, the AYANA Komodo Resort, Waecicu Beach.

Just a one-hour flight from the island of Bali, in West Flores, AYANA Komodo is the first and only five-star resort on the exquisite Labuan Bajo, Waecicu Beach.