A trip to Bali is a classic Kiwi getaway and the Indonesian Government is set to make the island paradise cheaper for New Zealand holidaymakers.
Currently, visitors have to pay just over NZ$50 per person to buy a 30-day visa.
The tourist hotspot will soon be axing its visa-on-arrival cost for Kiwis and citizens of other countries which could save some families hundreds of dollars each.
In June, the Indonesian Department of Immigration formally scrapped the visa-free travel program for travellers from 159 countries and, in its place, rolled out the visa-on-arrival program which charged travellers from 98 countries for a 30-day visa.
Indonesia's Tourism and Creative Economies Minister Sandiaga Uno told the Bali Sun that the visa-free programme would soon be expanded to "20 countries with the highest number of foreign tourists outside of countries that have visa-free visits".
The goal is to boost tourist numbers to pre-pandemic levels.
In 2016, the last time the tax was scrapped, Australian visitors increased by more than 16 percent.
Reuters reported that Indonesia had over 16 million foreign arrivals in 2019 but January to October 2023 saw only 9.5 million.
New Zealand makes the visa-free list alongside Australia, the UK, the US, China, and much of Europe, amongst others.
Uno said that the conversation around the legislation is still ongoing, but the proposal will be finalised within the month.
The savings from visas will be slightly negated by a new NZ$16 tourist tax for Bali, set to kick in from February 14.
With the popular destination hot spot seeing more than 15,000 travellers per day, Bali.com assured the process of payment would be "fast and efficient".
The tourist tax will have to be paid each time a visitor lands in Bali but won't apply across the rest of Indonesia and the funds from the tax will go towards maintaining the island's environment and culture.
