Denpasar (Antara Bali) - A total of 278,049 Australians visited the resort island of Bali in the first half of 2010, up 53.89 percent from a year earlier.
"The figure put Australia in the first place among top ten source countries of foreign tourists visiting Bali," Head of the Bali Provincial Statistics Office Ida Komang Wisnu said here on Friday.
Most of the Australian tourists came to Bali by air and only 5,958 by sea, he said.
The Australian tourists were made up of 23.56 percent of the overall tourist arrivals in the province in the six-month period which reached 1,180,118, he said.
Compared to the same period last year, the number of tourist arrivals in the January-June 2010 period rose 10.23 percent, he said.
He said the number of tourist arrivals from six of the top ten source countries saw an increase in the first half of 2010 while that of the other four countries fell.
The number of tourists from Australia rose 53.89 percent to 278,049 from 180,686, China 0.33 percent to 98,258 from 97,930, Taiwan 13.10 percent to 65,589 from 57,994, the Netherlands 40.53 percent to 36,082 from 25,676, Britain 2.19 percent to 38,526 from 37,701 and Singapore 55.36 percent to 41,483 from 26,702.
Meanwhile, the number of tourists from Japan fell 22.29 percent from 154,071 to 119,731, Malaysia 6.23 percent from 73,853 to 69,251, South Korea 5.81 percent from 63,045 to 59,384 and France 7.67 percent from 45,716 to 42,211. (*)
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"The figure put Australia in the first place among top ten source countries of foreign tourists visiting Bali," Head of the Bali Provincial Statistics Office Ida Komang Wisnu said here on Friday.
Most of the Australian tourists came to Bali by air and only 5,958 by sea, he said.
The Australian tourists were made up of 23.56 percent of the overall tourist arrivals in the province in the six-month period which reached 1,180,118, he said.
Compared to the same period last year, the number of tourist arrivals in the January-June 2010 period rose 10.23 percent, he said.
He said the number of tourist arrivals from six of the top ten source countries saw an increase in the first half of 2010 while that of the other four countries fell.
The number of tourists from Australia rose 53.89 percent to 278,049 from 180,686, China 0.33 percent to 98,258 from 97,930, Taiwan 13.10 percent to 65,589 from 57,994, the Netherlands 40.53 percent to 36,082 from 25,676, Britain 2.19 percent to 38,526 from 37,701 and Singapore 55.36 percent to 41,483 from 26,702.
Meanwhile, the number of tourists from Japan fell 22.29 percent from 154,071 to 119,731, Malaysia 6.23 percent from 73,853 to 69,251, South Korea 5.81 percent from 63,045 to 59,384 and France 7.67 percent from 45,716 to 42,211. (*)
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