Bali Tourism: Finally, the Wait is Over!

After two years of the COVID-19 pandemic and many false starts, Bali tourism has eventually restarted, to the joy of locals and travelers.

How does the picture look after two months of reopening? What are the prospects, expectations, and hopes this new beginning brings in?

Visa on Arrival (VoA) is back and visitors don’t have to languish in expensive quarantine anymore, nor irritate their nostrils through countless COVID-19 tests before and after arrival, so is everything back to normal? Can we expect everything to return to as it was before the pandemic?

Sure, it hasn’t been a rush since the reopening of the island in March 2022. It looked like everything was covered in dust. Honestly, it was hard to spot any foreign visitors in the streets or at the beach until mid-April. It was, in fact, so seldom that these tourists were really noticeable in the crowd. Putting everything back in motion is not an easy task. Bali’s tourism felt like an old rusted engine that had many hiccups before roaring back to life. But finally, Bali has restarted.

Bali’s economy has taken a big hit and unemployment flared to more than 40 percent. Once again, the Balinese have proven resilient. Many went back to their villages, opened a small business, or worked in the fields with other family members. Some would argue this is now the perfect time to rethink many aspects of Bali’s tourism, admit it or not because it went completely out of limits in the years before the pandemic.

Source: indonesiaexpat.id