Denpasar (Antara Bali) - Some 33,190 Australian tourists visited Bali in February 2010, up 63.73 percent from the same period last year.
The figure made Australia the top source of visitors among tens of countries whose citizens holidayed on the resort island in that month, head of the Bali provincial statistics office Ida Komang Wisnu said on Friday.
The Australian tourists accounted for 17.29 percent of the total tourist arrivals in Bali in February 2010, he said.
A total of 191,926 foreign tourists visited Bali in February 2010, a 29.94 percent increase compared to the same period last year.
In January 2010, the number of Australian tourists visiting Bali climbed 58.86 percent to 44,412 from 27,966 in the same period last year.
Last year, 446,570 Australian tourists visited Bali, up 42.62 percent from a year earlier.(*)
