The Economic Impact of Mount Agung Eruption on Bali Tourism

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10.2991/teams-18.2019.18How to use a DOI?

Keywords

economic impact; eruption; Mount Agung; tourism

Abstract

This study aims to analyse the economic impact of Mount Agung eruption in 2017 on Bali tourism. This study uses a qualitative research approach. Data was collected through interviews with hotel managers and tourism stakeholders in Bali. The research sample was determined by purposive sampling technique. The results show that most respondents said that they experienced drastic income decline after the closure of Ngurah Rai airport due to Mount Agung eruption. The decrease in hotel room occupancy in December 2018 even reaches 20-30%. This is very significant because December is usually peak season in Bali and hotels can achieve 100% room occupancy in normal conditions. Hotel revenues which declined significantly resulted in a decrease in the income of hotel employees and other tourism workers. Conditions gradually improved in March and almost recovered in April 2018. However, the earthquake in Lombok in June 2018 and the Tsunami in Palu in September 2018 was predicted to affect tourist visits to Bali due to travel warnings issued by several countries to visit Indonesia.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Putu Indah Rahmawati
AU  - Nana Trianasari
AU  - A.A.Ngr.Yudha Martin
PY  - 2019/01
DA  - 2019/01
TI  - The Economic Impact of Mount Agung Eruption on Bali Tourism
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Tourism, Economics, Accounting, Management, and Social Science (TEAMS 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 98
EP  - 107
SN  - 2352-5428
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DO  - 10.2991/teams-18.2019.18
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