Nusa Penida Accommodation: Booking Your Bali Stay With New Confidence

Share The Article Tourists traveling to Bali’s Nusa Penida can soon make their accommodation bookings with more confidence. Leaders in Bali have been on a mission to better regulate the accommodation sector, to help crack down on illegally operating businesses, and ensure that all who visit have a safe and comfortable stay. The Regent of Klungkung, Made Satria, has spoken to the media about his intentions to ensure that 100% of all tourist accommodation businesses on Nusa Penida are operating within the law. Currently, 90% of tourist accommodations on the outlying island are unlicensed. Regent Satria told the media, “The fact is, currently, most accommodations in Nusa Penida are unlicensed. This cannot be allowed. Going forward, our target is clear: all accommodation businesses must have official permits.” Regent Satria wants to ensure that high-quality tourism becomes the standard across Nusa Penida and noted that this starts with businesses being formally registered, licensed, and paying the relevant taxes. He confirmed that the Klungkung Regency Government has already started the process of getting businesses licensed and paying tax, and has announced that business coaching and mentoring will be offered to small businesses and the local community. For generations, Nusa Penida’s mainstay income was derived from fishing and seaweed farming. Over the last twenty years, and especially in the last ten, tourism development has boomed on the island, with many local community members shifting away from traditional livelihoods and focusing on operating their own tourism business. Regent Satria noted that cultural sustainability and environmentally friendly development have to be at the core of the tourism sector in Nusa Penida, explaining, “Tourism development cannot simply focus on quantity. We are building quality, sustainable tourism that provides direct benefits to the community.” He also called on the One-Stop Integrated Services Office to improve its licensing services by providing fast, transparent, and targeted business licensing, making the process easy and accessible for local entrepreneurs. He confirmed that in addition to regulating accommodation businesses in Nusa Penida, the Klungkung Regency Government is also planning to better organize and standardize tourism drivers on the island. The Regent noted that tourism drivers have an important and strategic role as one of the faces of local tourism in the eyes of tourists. He explained, “Klungkung tourism will be developed based on local wisdom, so that it has its own characteristics and uniqueness compared to other regions.” To help make this upgrade to Nusa Penida’s tourism sector happen as quickly and efficiently as possible, in order to benefit tourists as quickly as possible, the Regent has outlined five priority steps that will be carried out in the coming months in partnership with the Klungkung Regency Hotel and Restaurants Association (PHRI). The Chairman of PHRI Klungkung, I Putu Darmaya, told reporters that teams will create a Tourism Management Agency to ensure professional management of the Nusa Penida tourism sector. This will be followed by a rollout of tax incentives for licensed hotels and restaurants affiliated with the Indonesian Hotel and Restaurant Association in Klungkung Regency. The PHRI will become more involved in the hotel and restaurant licensing process, with a special focus on safe occupancy and adherence to standard operating procedures. Finally, there will be an accelerated effort on the development of basic infrastructure, such as roads, clean water, and electricity, and the construction of a new port. Darmaya explained, “The Regent accepted the proposals from our friends at PHRI and expressed his readiness to implement them.” “We, as tourism stakeholders, are now more reassured that Nusa Penida tourism will be better, of higher quality, and sustainable.” For tourists planning stays in Nusa Penida, there are plenty of reputable, high-quality, and licensed hotels, villas, and guesthouses to choose from.