: Donning yellow “Bali” hats featuring a surfer as the last letter, Chinese tourists walked along the Indonesian backpacker hotspot’s pristine blue waters, forgetting three years of Covid-19 misery.
Now a lucky few armed with selfie-sticks and clad in tropical shirts and straw hats are on long-awaited getaways to the “Island of Gods”. Balinese officials are even more bullish, hoping for the return of two-thirds of the 1.2 million Chinese visitors who came to the island pre-pandemic -- making them the second biggest group of tourists behind Australians.Though only several hundred Chinese tourists have arrived so far on a once-weekly flight from Shenzhen, the Indonesian government says four more airlines have applied to fly regularly to Bali from China.
At a mall in the Balinese capital Denpasar, Dong Yi was one of those who didn’t need to be persuaded, vowing to return to Indonesia now mainlanders could travel back and forth. Meanwhile, it is far from business as usual on the resort island, with the rainy season in full flow and visitor numbers still recovering.
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