Bowery

Nowadays, we can find a wide variety of hotels in Balikpapan city. If we compare to the past, when Balikpapan still has a small number for its population, according to the oil development era, this town was small and quiet, but now it is not anymore. We can see the big changes and a very fast development of hotel in Balikpapan. Balikpapan city is the main destination city in East Kalimantan. As we know that Balikpapan is the center of industry and commerce in the province that the city is glowing with better infrastructure than other towns in East Kalimantan. Many kind of visitors come here for their business or spend their holiday. It can be seen from the increasing number of Balikpapan visitors in the year 2006 reaching 8.682 people and go up equal to 0,92 % compared to year 2005 was only 8.603 people, based on Government statistic report*. These influencing the development progress of hotel in Balikpapan, because of the visitor who commonly has not any relative in Balikpapan,