Over 4 Million Foreign Tourists Visit Bali Until August 2017

DENPASAR, Bali, Oct 4 (Antara) - More than 4 million foreign tourists visited the resort island of Bali in the first eight months of this year, up 25.40 percent from 3.19 million in the same period last year. In August 2017 alone, 601,884 foreign tourists visited Bali, a 37.37 percent increase compared to the same month last year, chief of the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) office in Bali, Adi Nugroho said here on Tuesday. The number of tourist arrivals in August 2017 also increased 1.66 percent compared to a month earlier, he said. He said all top 10 sources of tourist arrivals saw a significant rise in the number of tourists visiting the resort island in the January-August 2017 period. The number of Chinese tourists surged 58,69 percent to 1,049,648 from 661,462, putting China atop the sources of tourist arrivals in the world-renowned tourist island. Trailing behind in the second place was Australia which saw a 0.26 percent rise in the number of tourists visiting Bali to 743,860 from 741,952. India was ranked third with a 48.84 percent surge in the number of tourists arrivals to 175,473 from 117,897, while Japan was ranked fourth with a 12.10 percent rise from 154,597 to 173,296. Bali has set a target of tourist arrivals for this year at 5.5 million. According to data from the Bali statistics office, the resort island received 4.92 million foreign tourists in 2016, a 23.14 percent increase, compared to 4.001 million in 2015.