The Bali chapter of the Indonesian Tourist Industry Association (GIPI) sees the situation in Thailan

The Bali chapter of the Indonesian Tourist Industry Association (GIPI) sees the situation in Thailand as an opportunity for Bali to boost the number of foreign tourists, especially because Thailand’s coastal tourist destinations, car rentals italy including Phuket, are competing with the Island of the Gods, as Bali is also known.
“Bali will see an increase in the number of foreign tourists who initially planned to visit Thailand but then canceled their trip,” said GIPI Bali chairman Ida Bagus Ngurah Wijaya according to the Jakarta Post .
Visitor numbers to Thailand may fall by 5 per cent this year, the biggest drop since 2009, according to the Pacific Asia Travel Association in Bangkok. Foreign arrivals already dropped by 4.9 per cent in the first four months of this year from a year earlier to 8.62 million, according to Thailand Department of Tourism.
Indonesia Air Ticketing Companies Association (Astindo) has estimated a 30 per cent decrease in demand to travel to Thailand from Indonesia within at least the next two or three months, according car rentals italy to the association’s chairperson Elly Hutabarat.
“The army-imposed curfew also reduces tourists’ comfort, as they obviously don’t want to spend their nights in hotel rooms during holidays,” she continued.Indonesian Tour and Travel Agencies (Asita) chairman Asnawi Bahar said should the conflict last longer than predicted, it would significantly affect the number of outbound tourists from Indonesia. The number of foreign tourists that visited Thailand in 2012 reached 22.3 million. Around 6.4 million were from fellow ASEAN countries, data from the ASEAN Secretariat car rentals italy show.
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