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Cranes were used to reassemble parts of the plane overlooking Nyang Nyang beach, in south Kuta.
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Coronavirus has had a crippling consequence on tourist-dependent Bali, which has welcomed only 45 foreign travellers in 2022. Prior to the pandemic, it received six million foreign travellers in 2019. In October alone, just two overseas visitors have made it to the tropical retreat.
The numbers were reported by the Central Statistics Bureau of Bali and covered the time period between January and October 2021, reports CNN.
Bali officially reopened to vaccinated international tourists from certain countries in October, but unlike other tourism-dependent locations like Thailand’s Phuket, the island still has many restrictions on foreign visitors.
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There’s a $US300 ($A422) business visa to obtain from an embassy or consulate as tourist visas have been suspended. Visitors must also get special health insurance and have proof of booked accommodation. They must also quarantine for up to 10 days and take several PCR tests. Flights are also more expensive as there are no direct international services. The main airport on Bali has not had a single flight from overseas since reopening in October.
Also, of the 19 countries where visitors are allowed from, one of the biggest markets is missing: Australia was left off the list due to concerns over a rise in COVID cases at the time.
The foreign tourists that have arrived have come by private yacht.
The only visitors have been domestic travellers, with 19,000 arriving in November, but the rise of the variant Omicron has seen new restrictions covering the Christmas and New Year period, limiting events and parties and dampening hopes of a tourism boost.
Around 80 per cent of the island’s population has been fully vaccinated, well above the roughly 40 per cent average for Indonesia as a whole.
Experts believe that the numbers of foreign tourists won’t return to 2019 levels for another few years.
Bali property developer Mark Ching, a director of the Tamora Group, told Al Jazeera it will take some time to bounce back: “History has shown that Bali is very resilient to disaster but the island will take another year or two to recover.
“It’s not just opening borders. People need to feel safe before they travel again.”
Before the discovery of Omicron, the pandemic had been projected to cost the world’s tourism sector $US1.6 trillion ($A2.25 trillion) in 2021.
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