DENPASAR - The Indonesian Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) of Badung Regency, Bali, said that hotel room reservations in the local regency were full from December 24 to the first week of 2026."The current occupancy is up to 70 percent, but after December 24, room reservations are full," said PHRI Badung Vice Chairman Komang Alit Ardana, Tuesday, December 23.He explained that the occupancy rate of hotels was dominated by domestic tourists, while foreign tourists were expected to return to their countries to celebrate Christmas, according to the normal tourism cycle in Bali.Alit said that despite the extreme weather, it did not discourage tourists from vacationing on the Island of the Gods.However, he admitted that extreme weather contributed to the arrival of tourists.Monitoring in the Kuta tourist area, Bali on Tuesday (23/12) the traffic began to be crowded with private vehicles and tourist buses with vehicle license plates from outside Bali.Meanwhile, ASDP Indonesia Ferry Branch Ketapang, Banyuwangi Regency, East Java, recorded an increase in the movement of passengers and vehicles crossing to Bali.Cumulatively, from H-10 to H-4 Christmas holidays, the total number of vehicles from Ketapang Port to Gilimanuk reached 40,987 units with a total number of passengers recorded at 143,533 people or an increase of 0.4 percent year-on-year."Extreme weather affects but the enthusiasm of domestic tourists to take advantage of holidays in Bali is quite large. Proof is at the crossing (Ketapang-Gilimanuk) vehicles are flowing," said Alit Ardana.Meanwhile, the Ngurah Rai Airport manager recorded provisional data on December 15-21, 2025, a total of 463,046 people, consisting of 181,643 domestic passengers and 281,412 international passengers.Meanwhile, the average daily passenger movement reached 66 thousand people and the average daily aircraft movement reached 420 flights.Jakarta and Surabaya are domestic routes with the highest movement to Bali and for international routes, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Perth are the busiest routes.A total of 86 additional flights were used during December 15-21, 2025 out of a total of 510 additional flights submitted during the Christmas and New Year period in Bali.With this realization, he continued, it also broke the negative campaign that was expected from competitors regarding Bali tourism that had recently circulated in cyberspace or social media, including comparing the province of Bali with countries in Southeast Asia."It's not fair to compare Bali with the countries of Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand. We must play a role in exciting and answering this issue that Bali is still worth visiting and the best destination," he said.As an illustration, Badung Regency is one of the main points of tourist destinations in Bali.Based on data from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) Bali in 2024, of the 593 star-rated hotel accommodations in Bali, 417 hotels are in Badung with a total of 48,257 rooms.Meanwhile, non-star hotels in Badung reached 1,182 units out of a total of 3,582 units in Bali. The English, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, and French versions are automatically generated by the AI. So there may still be inaccuracies in translating, please always see Indonesian as our main language. (system supported by DigitalSiber.id)