Supply of hotel rooms in Bali has continued to grow with 3,922 additional rooms in the second half of the year, Senior Associate Director of Knight Frank, Fakky Hidayat, said here Wednesday.
In the next two years , the hotel rooms on the resort island would total 10.466 units, he added.
In the first half of the year, 5-star hotels contributed the largest number or 37.7 percent to the total number of hotel rooms in Bali, Fakky said.
The second largest number was contributed by 4-star hotel accounting for 31.3 percent followed by 3-star hotels accounting for 31 percent, he said.
The largest number of the new hotels would be built in Kuta until 2014, he said.
He said , 4-star hotels grew faster in number in Bali with the growing number of domestic and foreign tourists .
The number of 4-star hotels rose 50.2 percent with 3,358 rooms in the first half of the year. The number of rooms of five star hotel totaled only 924 units in Nusa Dua, he said.
Four-star hotels are dominant in Seminyak, Sanur and Legian with rooms 691 units, 1,025 units and 617 units respectively.(*)
Editor: Heru Purwanto
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