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TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – The hotel occupancy rate in Mataram City, West Nusa Tenggara Province, for the MotoGP Indonesia at Mandalika Circuit on October 3-5, 2025 has reached around 40 percent.”The hotel occupancy from October 3 to 5 is already at 30-40 percent. There are indeed some hotels that have reached 70 percent occupancy used by Asia Talent Cup participants. It’s already busy, even full,” said the Chairperson of the Mataram Hotel Association (AHM), I Made Adiyasa Kurniawan, when contacted by phone in Mataram on Saturday, September 20, 2025.He stated that out of the 2,800 hotel rooms that are part of the Mataram Hotel Association (AHM), most bookings were made online through applications. Meanwhile, bookings through travel agents have decreased. “Perhaps they have difficulty in selling packages. For example, in our area, 50 percent have been booked but not yet paid. On average, it’s the same for other places, they have been booked but we have not included them in the ‘booking’,” he said.As for the guest categories, according to Adiyasa, most are still from domestic tourists. There are no guests from abroad yet.Regarding the room prices set by hotel owners, Adyasa said they are adjusted according to the hotel’s class, whether it’s star-rated or non-star-rated. He mentioned that the prices are on average as publicized by each hotel.Asked about the local government’s appeal not to raise prices too high during the MotoGP, Adiyasa affirmed that the prices have not increased because the room bookings are not too high. He added that if compared to the conditions during the first and second MotoGP (2022 and 2023), two weeks before the MotoGP, the rooms were already sold out, unlike the current situation.”I’m selling below the ‘publish rate’, but the rooms are still not selling. But perhaps closer to the event day, it could get busy. But we still don’t know what it will be like. What is clear is that the enthusiasm from the agents has significantly decreased, but they are now struggling to sell packages, because previously they came in groups, but now they are buying more individually,” he said.When asked if the reason for the low hotel room bookings is because the MotoGP coincides with the F1 in Singapore, he emphasized that there is no connection. Because F1 fans and MotoGP fans are different. In addition, F1 tickets are much more expensive than MotoGP and the cost of living in Singapore is also much higher.”Although transportation is much cheaper from Jakarta to Singapore compared to Jakarta-Lombok. But the price of watching F1 is much more expensive than MotoGP. So, the influence of F1 is not significant. On the contrary, we suspect that this is because of the MotoGP in Sepang, because one week after in Mandalika, the MotoGP continues in Malaysia, which may be a factor that affects why the demand is not high,” he said.Editor’s Choice: Five-Star Hotel to Be Built on Tanjung Aan Beach, MandalikaClick here to get the latest news updates from Tempo on Google News
