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Indonesia wants tourists to forget Thailand and travel to Bali<\/p>\n

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\u2019s coastal tourist destinations, including Phuket, are competing with the Island of the Gods, as Bali is also known.<\/p>\n

The Jakarta Post reported:
\n\u201cBali will see an increase in the number of foreign tourists who initially planned to visit Thailand but then canceled their trip,\u201d said GIPI Bali chairman Ida Bagus Ngurah Wijaya as quoted by kompas.com.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course we do not wish for conflict in other countries, but the military coup increases the number of foreign tourists to Bali,\u201d he said, adding that the data would only be ready in June.<\/p>\n

\"Bali<\/a><\/p>\n

A military coup was launched in Thailand on Thursday last week, during a meeting of political rivals in what was billed as a second round of talks on how to resolve the country\u2019s political deadlock.<\/p>\n

Visitors to Thailand may fall by 5 percent this year, the biggest drop since 2009, according to the Pacific Asia Travel Association in Bangkok, as reported by Bloomberg.<\/p>\n

Foreign arrivals already dropped by 4.9 percent in the first four months of this year from a year earlier to 8.62 million, according to Thailand Department of Tourism.<\/p>\n

There are at least 45 countries worldwide, including the US, the UK, France, Canada, Germany, Japan, Singapore and the Philippines, that have issued travel warnings following the coup.<\/p>\n

Indonesia\u2019s national flag carrier, Garuda Indonesia, has decided to decrease its flight frequency to Bangkok from June 1 to July 24, following the decreasing load factor over the past weeks.<\/p>\n

\u201cDue to decreasing demand following the current political situation in Thailand, from June 1 to July 24, Garuda will decrease its flight frequency from Jakarta to Bangkok to two flights per day from three flights per day previously,\u201d Garuda spokesperson Ikhsan Rosan said on Monday.<\/p>\n

Ikhsan said the load factor from Jakarta to Bangkok declined to 60 percent following last Thursday\u2019s coup, from between 70 and 75 percent previously. Load factor indicates the amount of weight of cargo and number of passengers that an aircraft can carry.<\/p>\n

\u201cAround 20 to 30 percent of customers have canceled their flights. We saw decreasing demand,\u201d Ikhsan added.<\/p>\n

Indonesia Air Ticketing Companies Association (Astindo) has estimated a 30 percent decrease in demand to travel to Thailand from Indonesia within at least the next two or three months, according to the association\u2019s chairperson Elly Hutabarat.<\/p>\n

\u201cThailand offers a lot of interesting tourist destinations, however, safety remains number one. It is inevitable that tourists are worried that there might be an airport closure,\u201d Elly said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe army-imposed curfew also reduces tourists\u2019 comfort, as they obviously don\u2019t want to spend their nights in hotel rooms during holidays,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0Around 6.4 million were from fellow ASEAN countries, data from the ASEAN Secretariat shows.<\/p>\n

Source: Global Travel Industry News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Indonesia wants tourists to forget Thailand and travel to Bali 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\u2019s coastal tourist destinations, including Phuket, are competing with the Island of the Gods, as Bali […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-world"],"yoast_head":"\nGo to Indonesia Forget Thailand - IndoGo!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Go to Indonesia Forget Thailand - 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