Bali hotels fully booked

Bali hotels fully booked

DENPASAR (JP): Hotels in Bali have been fully booked by local
and foreign tourists for the upcoming Christmas and New Year
holidays.

"Several days ahead of Christmas and New Year, tourism in Bali
will be booming," Tommy Raka, chairman of the Bali chapter of the
Indonesian Hotel and Restaurant Association, told Antara in Kuta,
Bali.

"All the rooms in 25 big hotels in the island province have
been fully booked by local and foreign travel bureaus," he said
yesterday, adding that small hotels will also benefit from the
tourism boom.

Room reservation rates have been on the rise since early this
month, leading to an average occupancy rate of 79 percent for the
year, he said.

Official figures show that this year the number of hotel rooms
in Bali has reached 30,005, consisting of 14,387 rooms in 88
star-rated hotels, 13,458 rooms in 742 medium-size hotels and
2,160 rooms in 516 small hotels.

In 1994, the number of foreign tourists visiting the island
reached 1,032,476, compared to 885,516 in 1993. (13)