Bali Records 57 Percent Increase In Chinese Tourists

Denpasar (Antara Bali) - Some 1,288,422 Chinese tourists visited the Indonesian resort island of Bali in the year ending October 31, 2017, up 57.06 percent compared to 820,345 recorded a year earlier, Bali's Central Statistics Agency (BPS) office stated.

With the number of tourist arrivals, China remains atop the list of top 10 sources of foreign tourist arrivals in Bali, I Gede Nyoman Subadri, chief of the distribution statistics of the BPS office, revealed here on Tuesday.

Chinese visitors accounted for 25.66 percent of the total 5.02 million tourist arrivals in the resort island in the first 10 months of 2017, he noted.

The number of tourist arrivals during the January-October 2017 period rose 23.30 percent as compared to 4.07 million in the same period last year, he remarked.

Australian tourists contributed 18.78 percent of the total tourist arrivals in Bali in the first 10 months of 2017, placing the country in the second position as the source of foreign tourist arrivals in the province.

This was followed by Japan, with 4.46 percent; India, with 4.43 percent; Great Britain, with 4.26 percent; the US, with 3.27 percent; France, with 3.23 percent; Germany, with 3.18 percent; South Korea, with 3.13 percent, and Malaysia, with 2.84 percent.

Of the top 10 sources of tourist arrivals, only visitors from Australia and Malaysia decreased by 1.36 percent and 0.08 percent respectively.

Subadri attributed the increase in the number of Chinese tourists visiting Bali in recent years to the close cooperation between the governments of China and Indonesia, among others.

In addition, the rise is related to national flag carrier Garuda Indonesia's breakthrough to focus on the China-Bali flight route. (WDY)