THE EFFECT OF VISA FREE ON THE NUMBER OF FOREIGN TOURIST TO BALI GRAVITY MODEL APPROACH

Abstract

This study aims to understand the effet of visa free policy on the number of foreign to Bali. The visa free policy is one of the efforts of the Indonesian government to attract foreign tourists to come to Indonesia with access to free visas. The methodology used in research is a Gravity model that is often used in measuring for demand tourism. Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea, Britain, France, the United States, and the United States as the 8 with the largest number of tourists to Bali from 2008-2019 beyond ASEAN. Results in this study have shown that according to estimates that visitation policy has hada positive and significant impact on the number of tourists to Bali. But for the GDP per capita each country has a negative and insignificant impact on the number of tourists and the distance from the capital has a negative and insignificant impact on the number of tourists to Bali.