Denpasar (Antara Bali) - Hotel occupancy rates in the resort island of Bali are estimated to increase by up to 90 percent during the Lebaran post-fasting month festivities this year, a spokesman said.
"Based on the results of our monitoring the number of tourist arrivals in the resort island is quite good with the average hotel occupancy rates ranging from 80 percent to 90 percent," Secretary of the Bali Chapter of the Indonesian Hotels and Restaurants Association (PHRI) Pery Markus said here on Sunday.
"Most of the hotel guests are domestic tourists hailing from Jakarta and Surabaya, among others," he said.
Data from the Bali tourism office show that the number of hotel rooms in Bali reached 46,014 at the end of 2009.
Last year, more than 2.2 million foreign tourists visited Bali and stayed an average of 8.75 days there, while the number of domestic tourists reached 3.5 million with the length of stay averaging three days.
The province now has 157 star hotels with 21.118 rooms and 1,037 non-star hotels with 20,516 rooms, not to mention cottages.
Of the total hotel rooms, 26,387 are found in Badung district.(*)
