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Article: Hotel occupancy rate hits single digit in Bali
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- November 5, 2002
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Hotel occupancy rate hits single digit in Bali
JAKARTA, Oct. 30 (Xinhua) -- The hotel occupancy rate in Bali has
dropped to a single digit, indicating that tourism in the tropical
paradise is on the brink of collapse more than two weeks after the
Oct. 12 bombings, the Jakarta Post reported Wednesday.
"We have asked for help from the government," said Yanti
Sukamdani, the chairperson of the Hotel and Restaurant Association in
Indonesia (PHRI), on Tuesday.
Yanti said the occupancy rate had become consistently worse since
the bomb blasts, which killed more than 191 people, mostly foreign
tourists.
As of Oct. 24, the occupancy rate stood at 11 percent, a sharp
drop from the 70 percent ...