Governor of Bali, Made Mangku Pastika plans to suspend construction of hotels in Bali. The reason, building the hotel rooms and villas that used to meet the needs of tourism in Bali has exceeded capacity.
This was revealed at a meeting with the Governor of Bali Bali tourism component in the building housing Jayasabha, Surapati Road, Christchurch, 16 September 2010 Thursday night.
"The urge to do a moratorium on the more powerful because although the level of tourist arrivals to Bali is full, but hotel occupancy rates averaged only 70 percent. This is very detrimental to the hospitality industry because of the many bedroom villa is illegal," said Pastika.
Based on data from the PHRI (Hotel and Restaurant Association of Indonesia) in 2009, the number of hotel rooms in Bali that was officially recorded as many as 46 014 units. However, PHRI estimate the number of hotel rooms and villas are illegal reaches 17 thousand. The growth of hotel rooms and villas in Bali every year for an average of two thousand rooms.
"Comparison of the number of hotels with unbalanced demand. Too many hotels supply compared with demand. In order to qualify operational level at least 40 percent occupancy. What hotels in Buleleng, Karangasem a dry tourism growth," he said.
Governor also plans to send a letter to the BKPM to dismiss Menbudpar and development of new hotels in Bali.
