Bali suggests travel bubble plan to lure back Australian tourists

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Hotels and resorts in Bali are desperate for our return. They have a bold idea for how to do it – but it may have already hit a snag.

“We support a ‘travel bubble’ plan because we know that when Australians are allowed to travel, they will want to come to Bali,” Indonesian Hotel and Restaurant Association chairman Rai Suryawijaya told the publication.While there have been no official talks between Jakarta and Canberra about reopening tourism to Australians, there are hopes in Bali those discussions will happen soon.

Komang Artana, the general manager of X2 Bali Breakers Resort in South Bali, backed the idea of an Australia-Bali travel bubble, telling theTravel bubbles are being increasingly seenbetween regions where community transmissions are low. Australia and New Zealand discussed the idea of a trans-Tasman travel bubble in April, while similar plans are being considered around the world. Last month, the Baltic nations of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia opened borders to each other, creating the first “travel bubble” within the European Union.

Despite hopes for an Australia-Bali travel bubble, the island’s governor has warned he had no plan to reopen the island to tourism anytime soon. Balinese security employees stand by a closed-off entrance gate leading to a beach amid the COVID-19 pandemic near Denpasar. Picture: Sonny Tumbelaka/AFPWayan Koster echoed comments from Indonesian President Joko Widodo, who said tourism would be a low priority in the central government’s “new normal” plan.

 

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With an average of 600 new cases of coronavirus per day, Indonesia won’t be on the card for a long time.

Bali is a cesspool, the Corona virus will be rampant there for some time to come yet. Stay in Australia, best country in the world!

Ummmmmmmm NO

there are hundreds of hotels and resorts in Australia fuck Bali

Because Indonesia has the virus under complete control?

Add Covid19 to the list of other diseases you can get from that sh*thole.. they'd have no idea if it was there or not

Weren't they complaining about Aussie tourists just a few months ago.

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