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Bali Braces for an Influx of Year-End Revelers
Made Arya Kencana | December 28, 2011

Dancers perform at a festival in Denpasar on Wednesday. Officials are reporting a significant increase in the number of arrivals at Bali’s Ngurah Rai Airport as domestic and international tourists make their way to the resort island for year-end celebrations. (Antara Photo) Dancers perform at a festival in Denpasar on Wednesday. Officials are reporting a significant increase in the number of arrivals at Bali’s Ngurah Rai Airport as domestic and international tourists make their way to the resort island for year-end celebrations. (Antara Photo)
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Kesiangan
4:58pm Dec 29, 2011

Yesterday: from Goa Gajah to Ubud 90 mins. by car. Normally 10 mins. From Monkey Forest Ubud to Ubud Main Street 1 hour by car. Normally 5 mins. Two small examples. Bali traffic is rapidly spinning out of control and it's going to backfire.

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Denpasar. Officials are reporting a significant increase in the number of arrivals at Bali’s Ngurah Rai Airport as domestic and international tourists make their way to the resort island for year-end celebrations.

“We’ve seen a 21 percent jump in arrivals, which we expect to go even higher as we approach the New Year,” the airport’s manager, Suhadi, said on Wednesday.

The airport reported that domestic arrivals had reached more than 12,000 a day, well above the daily average of 8,000. It also reported that international arrivals were at 11,000 a day, up from the average of 8,000.

Sherly Yunita, a public relations officer at airport operator Angkasa Pura I, said Ngurah Rai was serving 33 additional flights a day for the holiday season.

But a major expansion project at the airport is making life difficult for all the additional arrivals.

“There’s only one exit out of the arrivals terminal and it gets really crowded,” said Mujianto, a visitor from Jakarta.

He also complained about the increased traffic in the popular tourist areas of Kuta, Jimbaran and Nusa Dua.

As in previous years, most hotels on the island are fully booked ahead of the New Year.

“We’re at 100 percent occupancy,” said the Hard Rock Hotel’s marketing communications director, Aulianty Fellina Rizal. “Most of our guests are domestic tourists.”

The secretary of the Bali chapter of the Indonesian Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI), Perry Markus, said occupancy rates in Badung ­district — the most visited part of the island — were at 96 percent.

“This means that some hotels are at 100 percent and the lowest occupancy rate is 95 percent,” Perry said.

He noted that this was lower than last year’s figure, but put that down to an increase in the number of hotels.

Kuta Beach is expected to be the most popular tourist destination. “Visitor numbers are already very high and we expect it to peak on New Year’s Eve,” Kuta Beach official Gusti Ngurah Tresna said.