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        "id": 1222350,
        "msgid": "hotel-occupancy-rate-drops-20-percent-1447893297",
        "date": "2002-11-15 00:00:00",
        "title": "Hotel occupancy rate drops 20 percent",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Hotel occupancy rate drops 20 percent SURAKARTA, Central Java: The Surakarta chapter of the Indonesian Hotels and Restaurants' Association (PHRI) said on Thursday that the hotel occupancy rate in the sultanate city had dropped by 20 percent in the period following the Bali bombing. The association's chairman, Subandono, said that the decline was mainly caused by travel cancellations by foreign tourists.",
        "content": "<p>Hotel occupancy rate drops 20 percent<\/p>\n<p>SURAKARTA, Central Java: The Surakarta chapter of the<br>\nIndonesian Hotels and Restaurants' Association (PHRI) said on<br>\nThursday that the hotel occupancy rate in the sultanate city had<br>\ndropped by 20 percent in the period following the Bali bombing.<\/p>\n<p>The association's chairman, Subandono, said that the decline<br>\nwas mainly caused by travel cancellations by foreign tourists.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the slump had forced some major hotels to lower<br>\ntheir room rates by between 10 and 20 percent.<\/p>\n<p>\"This is the hardest time for the hotel business. We will go<br>\nbankrupt if the security situation does not improve,\" Subandono<br>\nsaid.<\/p>\n<p>Some 15 percent of the 100 hotels in Surakarta are star-rated.<br>\nTheir occupancy rates had recently rebounded to some 45 percent,<br>\nthe highest level since the 1998 riots, but the Bali bombing has<br>\ncaused them to slump again.<\/p>\n<p>\"We try to promote tourism here through distributing brochures<br>\nwith the help of Garuda Indonesia Airways. Our target is tourists<br>\nfrom Europe and Asia,\" Subandono said, adding that a group of<br>\nEuropean tourists had been in the city since last week. --Antara<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/hotel-occupancy-rate-drops-20-percent-1447893297",
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