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DOMESTIC tourist searches for hotels in Bali have increased in line with the decrease in restrictions on community activities which were previously at level 4. Based on data from Bank Indonesia citing hotelinsights.withgoogle.com as of October 2, 2021, hotel searches in Bali are more dominantly carried out by domestic searchers than international searchers. In detail, searchers from Bali reached 32%, Australia only 6%, USA 5%, and India 3%.
According to the Head of the Bali Representative Office of Bank Indonesia, Trisno Nugroho said since September 2021, hotel searches in Bali have increased. However, hotel searches from Google searchers in international regions are still limited.
“Searchs for hotels in Bali on the Google search engine from the domestic market have experienced an increasing trend since PPKM dropped to level 3, while searches from the international market are still relatively low as international borders have not been opened and the fear factor for travel is still high,” he said, Thursday (11/11). /4).
He explained, meanwhile, domestic tourist arrivals began to show improvement in October 2021. During the beginning of the year until October 24, 2021, domestic passenger arrivals reached 1.2 million people. The number is still lower than the same period in 2020 which was 1.29 million people.
“The deepest decline occurred in international passengers, which contracted minus 99.96 percent during the beginning of the year until October 24, 2021, compared to the same period last year. During January 1 to October 24, 2021, international passenger visits were only 426 passengers, while in the same period last year there were 1.21 million passengers,” concluded Trisno Nugroho. [bisnis.com/photo special]
