West Java PHRI: In Bandung, Hundreds Of Hotels Are Bankrupt, "Roll The Mats" Due To Pandemic

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JAKARTA - The Association of Indonesian Hotels and Restaurants (PHRI) in West Java stated that hundreds of hotels have gone bankrupt due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

West Java PHRI Chairman, Herman Muchtar, said his party was still conducting detailed data collection regarding the number of bankrupt hotels. However, according to him, hundreds of hotels in West Java that were bankrupt were no longer operating.

"What is clear is that there are already many closed and unopened ones, they are slumped. It's already past January entering February and COVID-19 has not recovered yet," Herman said in Bandung, West Java, quoted from Antara, Friday, February 5.

According to him, the hotels that experienced the most bankruptcies were in Bandung city, West Java. Because, he said, that region was most affected when tourist visits decreased.

"In Bandung city, there is quite a lot (hotels are bankrupt), I think so," said Herman.

Meanwhile, the Department of Culture and Tourism (Disbudpar) of Bandung City noted that during the implementation of restrictions on community activities (PPKM) the occupancy rate of hotels in Bandung only reached 10 to 20 percent.

Prior to that, at the end of the year hotel occupancy in Bandung was still at 40 percent. However, the Head of Disbudpar for Bandung City, Dewi Kenny Kaniasari, said that the decline in occupancy was still fairly reasonable.

"Naturally, because it is not only in the city of Bandung, the PSBB is Java-Bali. Maybe people traveling will also decrease again," said Kenny.