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View all search resultsThe event industry in Bali is under pressure from austerity measures, according to industry representatives, with significant revenue declines recorded as a result of reduced government trips and events.
The government sought to support travel and hospitality businesses with more international flights last year, but the sector has yet to see a full recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. There’s hope among tourist industry stakeholders that 2025 will finally bring a rebound.
A new task force involving the SOEs, tourism and transportation ministries is set to start working within the next two weeks to ramp up both foreign and domestic tourism through a variety of measures, including harmonizing regulations, according to the SOEs minister.
While conceding that visitor numbers had not returned to pre-pandemic levels, the tourism ministry highlighted that it had surpassed this year's minimum target with 11.43 million arrivals until Oct. 1 and expressed optimism of reaching the maximum target of 14.3 million visitors by the year-end.
The tourism minister claims that Indonesian tourism will not suffer from the end of the visa-free facility for 159 countries because of the government’s paradigm shift to “quality tourism”, but an industry scholar disagrees.
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