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Thursday, 1 October 2026

How Bali’s tourism numbers connect arrivals, domestic trips and hotel demand

Bali’s official tourism data show how foreign arrivals, domestic trips and hotel occupancy describe different parts of the island’s tourism economy.

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Editor: Mursyid Sonsang

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Bali’s tourism data show demand coming from both international and domestic travel, while hotels record different occupancy levels by category. In July 2025, Bali received 697.11 thousand direct foreign-tourist visits and 2.29 million domestic-tourist trips, while star hotels recorded 67.75% occupancy and non-star hotels 49.00%, according to Statistics Indonesia Bali, 2025.

How many foreign tourists visited Bali?

Bali recorded 697.11 thousand direct foreign-tourist visits in July 2025, up 11.42% from July 2024, according to Statistics Indonesia Bali, 2025.

From January through July 2025, the total reached 3.98 million visits, an increase of 12.46% from the same period in 2024, according to Statistics Indonesia Bali, 2025.

How large is domestic tourism?

Domestic travellers made 2.29 million trips to Bali in July 2025, up 31.96% from July 2024, according to Statistics Indonesia Bali, 2025.

Travellers from East Java accounted for 172.26 thousand of those trips, the largest provincial origin identified in the release, according to Statistics Indonesia Bali, 2025.

What do hotel occupancy figures show?

Star hotels recorded a room-occupancy rate of 67.75% in July 2025, according to Statistics Indonesia Bali, 2025. The rate was 3.10 percentage points higher than in June 2025.

Non-star hotels recorded 49.00% occupancy in July 2025, up 2.90 percentage points from June 2025, according to Statistics Indonesia Bali, 2025.

What does the official tourism data cover?

The Bali Provincial Tourism Office publishes tourism statistics covering direct foreign arrivals, domestic trips, length of stay, room occupancy, rankings and longer-term domestic-tourism series. Its 2025 statistical collection was published in 2026, according to the Bali Provincial Tourism Office, 2026.

The two official datasets use different measures: foreign figures count direct visits, domestic figures count trips, and hotel figures measure occupied rooms. They should therefore not be added together as a single visitor total.

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