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INDONESIA’S Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy, Sandiaga Uno said preparations for opening Bali tourism for foreign tourists had entered the final stage and had reached 90%.
“We continue to prepare, now we reach 85-90% and of course this will continue to move, it can go down or up depending on our seriousness in presenting pre-conditions,” said Minister Sandiaga Uno during the Coordination Meeting on Preparation for the Opening of Bali Tourism in Badung Regency, Bali, Friday (6/11).
The preconditions that serve as barometers for the preparation for the opening of Bali tourism include controlling COVID-19 cases, vaccination programs, preparing travel corridor arrangements, increasing compliance and health protocols.
“Hopefully, we can continue to do this, COVID-19 cases can continue to be suppressed and the global COVID-19 situation is also conducive, so that the targets given to us can certainly be completed,” said Sandiaga Uno.
Bali tourism, especially in the three pilot green zone locations named SUN, namely Sanur, Ubud and Nusa Dua, is planned to be reopened to foreign tourists in mid-2021.
“Today we will start from the final stage of preparation and continue with the inspections of the three SUN zones. We ourselves have reviewed in Nusa Dua to see the readiness of the area that we will define as a priority area to receive foreign tourists,” he stated.
The Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy together with a number of stakeholders and tourism players who participated in the coordination meeting were optimistic that the opening of Bali tourism for foreign tourists could be carried out according to a predetermined schedule.
“This is a long process and a process that involves so many parties and at the coordination meeting everyone was optimistic, all of them felt great motivation, because for the past five quarters Bali’s economy has contracted tremendously,” Minister Sandiaga Uno concluded. [traveltext.id]
