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39096
Tue, 01/06/2009 - 15:20
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NUMBER OF AUSTRALIAN TOURISTS TO BALI UP 56.80 PCT
Denpasar, Indonesia, Jan 6 (ANTARA) - The number of Australian tourists visiting Bali in the 11-month period January - November 2008 reached 286,998 or 15.72 percent of the total of 1,825,448 foreign visitors who came to the "Island of Gods" in the same time span.
In November 2008 alone, some 183,033 Australian tourists came to Bali, an increase of 56.80 percent from the figure in November 2007, according to Ida Komang Wisnu, head of the Bali branch of the Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS), here Tuesday.
But among the 10 foreign countries where foreign tourists to Bali usually originate, Australia ranked second in number in the January-November period in 2008 after Japan. This was attributed among other things to the Australian government's travel warnings.
Japanese accounted for the biggest number of foreign tourists to Bali with 338,003 or 18.582 percent of the total number of foreign tourists coming to Bali in the period under review.
South Korea was in the third position with 124,098 (6.80 percent), Taiwan 120,810 (6.62 percent) and China 118,665 (6.50 percent).
Meanwhile, Malaysian tourists to Bali only numbered 113,409 or 6.21 percent, German 77.316 (4.24 percent), British 77.316 (4.24 percent), French 71.788 (3.93 percent), American 61.770 (3.38 percent) and other nationalities 436,977 (23.94 percent).
The numbers of tourists from all the ten countries - except Taiwan - who came to Bali in November 2009 had increased compared to the same month a year earlier, Wisnu said.
In November 2008 alone, some 183,033 Australian tourists came to Bali, an increase of 56.80 percent from the figure in November 2007, according to Ida Komang Wisnu, head of the Bali branch of the Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS), here Tuesday.
But among the 10 foreign countries where foreign tourists to Bali usually originate, Australia ranked second in number in the January-November period in 2008 after Japan. This was attributed among other things to the Australian government's travel warnings.
Japanese accounted for the biggest number of foreign tourists to Bali with 338,003 or 18.582 percent of the total number of foreign tourists coming to Bali in the period under review.
South Korea was in the third position with 124,098 (6.80 percent), Taiwan 120,810 (6.62 percent) and China 118,665 (6.50 percent).
Meanwhile, Malaysian tourists to Bali only numbered 113,409 or 6.21 percent, German 77.316 (4.24 percent), British 77.316 (4.24 percent), French 71.788 (3.93 percent), American 61.770 (3.38 percent) and other nationalities 436,977 (23.94 percent).
The numbers of tourists from all the ten countries - except Taiwan - who came to Bali in November 2009 had increased compared to the same month a year earlier, Wisnu said.
