More and more Australian Tourists Visit Bali
Thursday, August 20, 2009
, Posted by opung chikal at Thursday, August 20, 2009
The number of Australian tourists visiting the paradise island of Bali increased by 37 percent to 180,686 tourists during the first semester of this year, Antara news agency reported on Sunday.
The head of the Bali Bureau of Statistics, Ida Komang Wisnu, told the news agency that overall, the number of foreign tourists visiting Bali increased by 10 percent in the first semester to 1.07 million over the same period of last year.
Australia was the number one supplier of tourists to Bali, followed by Japan with 154,071 tourists and China with 97,930. The next biggest suppliers of tourists were Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan, France, Britain, Germany and United Sates.Of those 10 countries, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan supplied less number of tourists this year compared to the previous year.
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