balinews
The number of tourists visiting Bali in May saw a decrease of around eight percent compared to the same period last year, data from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) revealed yesterday. In their latest release, BPS said that there were a total of 485,795 foreign tourists visiting Bali in May, a decrease of 8.08 percent from May 2018, when the number of foreign tourists stood at 528,510. Adi Nugroho, who heads the statistics agency's Bali chapter, said the impact on tourism might have been caused by the trade war between the US and China, as well as the recent surge in domestic airfares. "The decrease might have been affected by waning interest in travel among the international community, as a result of the trade war between the US and China. Other than that, domestic airfares in our country are also quite high, and that seems to have had an impact on our tourism," Adi said, as reported by state news agency [I]Antara. [URL unfurl="true"]https://coconuts.co/bali/news/bali-tourist-arrivals-down-8-percent-in-may-compared-to-last-year/[/URL][/I]
sakumabali
and too many of those foreign tourists are Chinese. Sleeping in cheap (if possible Chinese owned) hotels, driving around in buses owned by Chinese companies and eating in Chinese owned restaurants. The average Balinese not get a dollar from them. They just blocking the roads in their big buses.
