Bali PPKM Level 3, Domestic Tourist Visits Tripled

ILLUSTRATION/ANTARA/Ngurah Rai Airport Bali

DENPASAR - The decline in PPKM (Community Activity Restrictions) Level 3 in Bali has a positive impact on boosting domestic tourist visits to the Island of the Gods.

Head of the Bali Provincial Tourism Office, Putu Astawa, explained that tourist visits can be measured by the arrival of passengers at I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport, Bali, which has reached 4,300 per day during PPKM level 3.

"If you look at the arrivals at the airport now, it's at 4,300 per day. Compared to the Emergency PPKM in June-July, it's around 700 to 800 (per day) under a thousand. That means, there is a three-fold increase", said Astawa, when contacted Wednesday, September 22.

During PPKM level 3, continued Astawa, there has been an increase in domestic tourist visits. Meanwhile, the most popular visits are still in coastal areas such as Kuta Beach, Legian, and Pandawa Beach.

"Still in coastal areas that are visited by many such as Legian, Kuta, and Pandawa", he added.

Astawa said domestic tourist visits to Bali depended on the development of COVID-19 on the island of Bali. If COVID-19 cases continue to decline, tourist visits may be more crowded.

"We hope that the Tourism Office can improve our tourism conditions. Because we are really down from the tourism aspect", he said.

If the COVID-19 condition continues to improve, it is believed that domestic tourist visits could reach more than 10,000 people per day.

"When working from Bali, before PPKM or before there was a delta variant, it could reach 10 thousand and 13 thousand per day.

Meanwhile, if it was normal before there was COVID-19, the domestic number was 16,000", said Astawa.