Bali posted Indonesia’s highest star-rated hotel occupancy rate of any province in July 2026, at 67.29 percent, according to Statistics Indonesia (BPS). There is no single official occupancy figure specific to Uluwatu, since BPS reports occupancy at the provincial level only, with no area-specific breakdown published for Bali’s individual districts or tourism corridors.
Understanding what the official data actually covers, and being clear about what it does not, matters more than reaching for a single headline percentage that may not exist in verifiable form.
BPS tracks room occupancy rate (Tingkat Penghunian Kamar, or TPK) for star-rated hotels across Indonesia’s provinces every month. Bali’s figures through 2026 have moved considerably: 56.67 percent in January, 55.44 percent in February, 52.54 percent in March, 57.94 percent in April, 61.16 percent in May, and 67.29 percent in July, the highest of any Indonesian province that month.
This is a provincial figure. It covers all star-rated hotels across Bali, from Kuta to Ubud to Uluwatu, combined into one monthly average, and does not break out any single sub-region on its own. Non-star accommodation runs meaningfully lower: BPS recorded 42.53 percent for non-star hotels and other accommodation in Bali in July 2026, itself the highest non-star rate of any province that month. The gap between star and non-star occupancy is a consistent pattern in BPS’s data, not a one-off.
BPS does not publish occupancy data broken down by district or tourism corridor within Bali. There is no official “Uluwatu occupancy rate,” “Canggu occupancy rate,” or similar sub-regional figure available from the government’s own statistics. Any area-specific occupancy claim circulating in the market, whether from an individual hotel operator, a property agency, or a market report, reflects a private data source’s own methodology and scope, not a verified government statistic.
That does not make such figures worthless, but it does mean they should be read for what they are: one organization’s estimate or one property’s own disclosed performance, not a substitute for an official area-wide average that simply does not exist in published form. Readers and investors comparing Bali’s tourism corridors should treat any specific sub-regional occupancy number they encounter with that caveat in mind, and check its source and methodology before relying on it.
Even setting aside the lack of an official Uluwatu-specific figure, occupancy data in Bali more broadly comes from several fundamentally different sources that should never be merged. A province-wide government figure like BPS’s measures all star-rated hotels together in a single average. An individual hotel’s own disclosed performance, where available, reflects one property in one market segment, not an area. Short-term rental platform data, covering villa-style accommodation, measures an entirely separate inventory pool with different demand patterns from branded hotels.
Treating any of these three categories as interchangeable, or presenting one as representative of an entire area, produces a misleading picture. The only occupancy figure with genuine province-wide statistical authority is the BPS series, and it is scoped to the whole of Bali, not to any single corridor.
A newly built, internationally branded upper-upscale hotel like CROSS Bali Uluwatu enters a market where the only reliable, government-sourced reference point is a broad provincial average, not any area-specific figure. That average is only loosely predictive of what an individual new property will achieve, since a single hotel’s performance depends on its own brand positioning, service standards, and market segment far more than it depends on a province-wide statistic.
What the BPS data does support is a more general observation: Bali’s star-hotel occupancy has trended upward through much of 2026, reaching its highest monthly reading of the year in July, part of a broader demand picture explored further in our piece on Bali’s hotel pipeline and what the supply numbers mean for investors. That is useful context for understanding the broader environment a new hotel is entering, but it is not, and should not be read as, a projection of what any specific new property will achieve.
Bali’s star-rated hotel occupancy rate has varied by month through 2026, from a low of 52.54 percent in March to a high of 67.29 percent in July, the highest of any Indonesian province that month, according to BPS.
There is no official occupancy figure specific to Uluwatu. BPS publishes occupancy data at the provincial level only, with no breakdown by district or tourism corridor within Bali.
Because they measure different things: a province-wide government average, an individual hotel’s own disclosed performance, and short-term rental platform data all reflect different scopes and inventory pools, and should never be treated as interchangeable.
There is no reliable, officially published area-specific comparison available. Any such claim in the market reflects a private source’s own estimate, not a government statistic.
Bali’s foreign tourist arrivals have fluctuated month to month through 2026, with some months showing year-on-year declines even as occupancy rates rose, an anomaly BPS itself flagged in its April 2026 data.
