Bali airport gets ready to welcome international tourists back to Indonesia resort island
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1640863
Bali airport gets ready to welcome international tourists back to Indonesia resort island
- Title: Bali airport gets ready to welcome international tourists back to Indonesia resort island
- Date: 9th October 2021
- Summary: VARIOUS OF ARRIVING PASSENGERS SITTING DOWN AND WAITING SIMULATION OF PASSENGER BEING ESCORTED INTO COVID-19 TEST ROOM PASSENGER AND STAFF INSIDE TESTING ROOM (SOUNDBITE) (Bahasa Indonesia) HEAD OF HEALTH PORT OFFICE, JEFRI SITORUS, SAYING: "Currently based on the report we have, there are 35 (hotels for quarantine) but we are also preparing additional hotels that have passed the criteria. Our target in this first phase is to add 20 more hotels and we will take it from there. If demand is high then we will add more, but also there will be a maximum limit." VARIOUS PASSENGERS IN SIMULATION EXERCISE AT BAGGAGE CLAIM (SOUNDBITE) (Bahasa Indonesia) HEAD OF HEALTH PORT OFFICE, JEFRI SITORUS, SAYING: "What we got from the health ministry was to prepare hotel rooms at least eight times the number of the total arriving passengers daily. So, for example if there are 1,500 tourists coming, then we must have eight multiplied by 1,500." VARIOUS OF PEOPLE WAITING FOR THE BUS VARIOUS PEOPLE WAITING TO BE TRANSPORTED TO DESIGNATED HOTELS EXTERIOR OF BALI NGURAH RAI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT SHOPS AT COMMERCIAL COMPLEX SHOP KEEPER STANDING OUTSIDE STORE CUSTOMERS INSIDE THE SHOP (SOUNDBITE) (Bahasa Indonesia) 20-YEAR-OLD SHOP KEEPER, KOMANG NIA RANI, SAYING: "I hope it will be realised because it's been canceled at least five times (already). But I really hope this October 14 reopening for international tourists will take place and everything will recover soon. It has been so long that the condition has been bad like this for the past 2 years. I hope everything will be back to normal and the shop will get more customers." (SOUNDBITE) (Bahasa Indonesia) 40-YEAR-OLD FOOD DELIVERY COMPANY STAFF, SANG GEDE NGURAH, SAYING: "I really agree with the simulation exercise and health protocols are the most important thing in this reopening to control the spread of the virus."
- Embargoed: 23rd October 2021 09:51
- Keywords: Bali Indonesia airport international reopening simulation tourism
- Location: BALI, INDONESIA
- City: BALI, INDONESIA
- Country: Indonesia
- Topics: Asia / Pacific,Health/Medicine
- Reuters ID: LVA003EYFQREV
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: The airport in Indonesia's resort island Bali held a simulation exercise on Saturday (October 9) to make sure procedures were in place to welcome back international tourists who have been mostly shut out due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The exercise follows the government's decision to reopen the island for international travellers, including those from China, New Zealand and Japan, among others from October 14.
Bali's airport officials gave a tour to media showing protocols in place to welcome the first international flights as hundreds of airport staff played the role of foreign visitors arriving for a holiday. Staff on duty ensured the "tourists" were keeping a distance from eachother, they checked documents and ushered them into rooms for COVID-19 tests before they are picked up to be taken to where they will be in quarantine for eight days.
Bali residents were excited about the opening up as tourism is the main income for the island.
Indonesia, Southeast Asia's biggest economy, exited its first recession in over two decades in the second quarter, though a COVID-19 resurgence and ensuing social restrictions likely weighed on the recovery momentum.
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