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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Cancelled Japanese trips cost Bali hotels Rp 1.7b

Thousands of tourists from disaster-hit Japan have cancelled trips to Bali, costing local hotels at least Rp 1.7 billion (US$1.188 million) in losses, the Association of Indonesian Hotels and Restaurants says.

“The tourists had earlier booked 1,308 rooms 45 three-to-five-star hotels with room rates of around Rp 750,000 on average in Kuta, Nusa Dua, Tuban, and Sanur,” the association’s Bali chapter secretary, Perry Markus, said in Denpasar on Wednesday, as reported by tempointeraktif.com.

The chairman of the Bali chapter of the Association of Indonesia Tours and Travel, Aloysius Purwa, said he expects the number of Japanese visitors to Bali this year to drop by 30 percent to 150,000 compared to last year.
“The potential losses could reach about US$400 million,” he said.

The number of Japanese tourists who visited Bali had been declining consistently over the past few years. Last year the total number of Japanese tourists who came to Bali was 245,000, compared to 334,000 in 2009 and 360,000 in 2008.

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