{"id":29351,"date":"2016-10-10T16:01:15","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T09:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/whats-driving-tourists-and-investors-away-from-bali-and-into-the-gili-islands\/"},"modified":"2016-10-10T16:09:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T09:09:35","slug":"whats-driving-tourists-and-investors-away-from-bali-and-into-the-gili-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/whats-driving-tourists-and-investors-away-from-bali-and-into-the-gili-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s driving tourists and investors away from Bali and into the Gili Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nLuxury villa projects springing up in Gili Meno
\nGili Meno, Indonesia. soft_light\/Shutterstock
\nGrowing urbanisation in Bali may have driven more and more beach frolickers from Bali toward the more laidback idylls of the nearby Gili Islands.
\nThe trio of islands named Gili Trawangan, Gili Meno and Gili Air hosted nearly 450,000 guests last year, according to a report released this week by hospitality consultancy C9 Hotelworks. In addition, occupancy rates at regulated accommodations in the islands grew by 34 percent between 2011 and 2015, while the number of guests in those lodgings soared 14 percent.
\nAnd Gili tourists are not just\u00a0billeted in shacks\u00a0\u2014 C9 found that average occupancy levels in upscale accommodations around the islands stand at 76 percent this year to date. Hoteliers seem well aware of this remarkable shift, with nine confirmed hotel projects, representing 278 keys, now in the pipeline for the islands.
\nResidential property developments are following suit, with home buyers expecting to pay 10 to 20 times less than they would in Bali for sea-view plots. Luxury villa projects are springing up especially in Gili Meno, where construction of the BASK Gili Meno villas, designed by architect Gary Fell, is underway.
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\nOverall, the average length of tourists\u2019 stay in Bali has shortened even as that in the Gilis and nearby Lombok has increased, C9 stated in its report.
\nMultiple factors play into this growing exodus from the Island of the Gods. \u201cDestination fatigue, urbanization and a change in travelers tastes towards more natural locations is spurring the move,\u201d Bill Barnett, managing director of C9 Hotelworks, said.
\nThe Gilis have gained a repute as a hippie hangout in recent years. Accusations are rife that drug use is increasing\u00a0in the island group in a country where trafficking illicit substances is met by capital punishment.
\nFuelling the influx to the islands are Australians and European tourists, who accounted for 73 percent of international hotel guests in 2015, C9 reported. Indonesians are not far behind, with domestic hotel guests meteorically rising from 24,826 to 60,124 between 2011 and\u00a02015.
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\nSource : property-report.com
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