In the first month following the reopening of the borders, only two foreign visitors arrived in Bali: around 500 thousand arrived in the same period of 2019. Nyoman Gede Gunadika, Head of Tourism of the local province, told a CNN that this is the lowest number of foreign visitors ever recorded in Bali, which is located east of the island of Java and has about 4.2 million inhabitants. Bali is mainly visited by tourists from Singapore, the Philippines, Australia and Thailand, but also many visitors from Western countries. One of the other restrictions imposed on tourists from the 19 countries admitted to Bali, including India, China and Japan, concerns the journey to get there: under the new rules, foreign visitors can only arrive in Bali by direct flights from their own countries. As he noted CNN, many of the foreign tourists who visited Bali this year did so by arriving on their own private yachts.

Source: Ethiopian News December 26, 2021 09:42 UTC