It takes its name from a home owned by Pandji Tisna (1908-1978), a Regent of Buleleng and pioneer of tourism to Bali in the early 1950s.

Popular activities for visitors include diving, snorkeling, and early-morning boat trips off the coast to see dolphins.

At Lovina, 1,000 ‘bio-rocks’ (large concrete and metal bells with holes to attach hard coral) have been built and installed by 250 locals, out of work since the pandemic.

[7] The local team, who started its work as a small group of people in 2019, also takes care of the nursery that was implemented as one of the first moves; they take in international volunteers, run awareness programs, monitor and document the evolution of the site, experiment on different methods for planting coral, hunt coral predators, pick up trash underwater...[8] This project also aims at reducing unemployement by planning for supervision and maintenance work of the sites,[9] an undertaking that corresponds to the largest and more costly part of reef regeneration.

And as most of the restoration projects in Indonesia are being done without preliminary studies, artificial reefs are not planted in places where they are needed most.”[7] Lovina travel guide from Wikivoyage