Bali transfers the backpackers, tourists and the economical expenditure habits of the digital nomad

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Business owners in Bali spoke to the media about the expenditure habits of tourists, backpackers and digital nomads and how these trends affect their income.

According to some business owners, the economical expenditure habits of a part of the over 6 million international visitors of Bali are costly and frustrating for local entrepreneurs.

In conversation with the reporters Ibu Parubaya, the owner of a small fish restaurant in the Kedonganan Fish Market, she confirmed that she published foreigners on more than one occasion who visited their stand and spent much more time than money on their premises.

She said reporters: “I told them they should come out of my stand because they didn’t buy, just bought a glass of iced tea and sat and chatted for hours. It blocks other customers who want to eat here. (You should be used to being) because it is normal. “

Tourists with low editions have a nickname in Bali, which is known as “Turis Sandal Jepit” or flip-flop tourists. Small local business owners in the island’s tourism resorts lose their patience with the frugality of some types of tourists.

Reporters visited cafes and food owners in the areas of Kedonganan and Jimbinan and found many stories similar. Some stable owners report on foreign tourists who exceed the fruit price, or a group of tourists sits down in a café or food session and only one of them, while the others drink bought elsewhere.

These reporters were handed over to the chairman of the Bali Marginal Tourism Actors Alliance Wayan, Puspa Negara, who shared his insights into the situation. He noted that Bali gives four main drive demography and that they are identified by their expenditure habits, the first of the backpackers, the second is the middle depth, the third is the middle-up and the fourth is the luxury traveler.

Negara said reporters: “This backpacker class is particularly common in Bali, even they are repeat guests, so everything depends on us, the government, stakeholders, interests, technical units, whether they filter them or not. The way to filter can be like the state of Bhutan, the number of tourists is limited. “

“We are still waiting for mass tourists in Bali, so those who come at that time can be selected. It is time that Bali moves towards quality tourism by strengthening the quality of the goal and personnel resources, and this can be done with the policy of the local government. “

Negara is not the first to refer to a BHUTAN-style tourism model as a potential starting point for the redesign of the travel and tourism sector in Bali.

The former Indonesian Minister of Tourism and Creative Economics, Sanidaga Uno, regularly discussed the introduction of a Bhutan style model in Bali. In the past few weeks, Bali Senator Ni Luh Djelantik has also shared content online in which the managers observe Bhutan’s highly controlled, sustainable tourism model.

However, many believe that mass tourism in Bali is far too widespread and that a shift to a tourism model in Bhutan style with extremely limited odds, obligatory tours and expensive visas that are paid on the daily basis would be short-sighted.

If Bali just attracted luxury and high-end tourists, thousands of small companies would collapse, including those along Jimbaran Beach and Kedonganan Beach who have supported the tourist demography of the lower and middle budget for a long time.

Although anecdotal reports that the number of tourists that the hospitality of small business in Bali exploits IDR 22.8 million.

In 2024, the top output tourists spend far beyond that of the average visitor. Swiss tourists spend an average of $ 2,194 per stay, followed by tourists from the USA who spent $ 2,182, in third place there were tourists from Austria that spent an average of USD $ 2.175.

Due to an obvious increase in the number of foreigners who operate criminal activities in Bali, and reports on low expenses that have a negative impact on local companies, Bali’s leaders will install more advertising boards in the top resorts that the DO and DO- Visit N’n’t visitors to the province.

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