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Bali opens border to international travellers
February 7th 2022
Bali has welcomed its first international visitors under the popular tourist destination's reopening scheme for travellers fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Read More » The first flight, Garuda Indonesia GA881, arrived on February 3 from Tokyo Narita carrying 12 passengers, all on business visas. After arrival in Bali, international travellers must spend four nights/five days at one of five participating hotel resorts set up as part of the quarantine bubble. Speaking with reporters in Bali, a Ministry for Tourism official, Nia Niscaya, described the hotel stay as a "warm-up vacation" that was different to quarantine. He said guests were free to use the facilities of the resort/quarantine hotels. Bali welcomed 6.2 million international visitors in 2019. Numbers tumbled to 1.1 million in 2020 and just 45 in 2021 after the country’s borders were shut due COVID-19.
