Malaysian Tourists To Bali Increase - Bernama

DENPASAR (Bali), Aug 16 (Bernama) -- The number of tourists from Malaysia to Bali rose in the first six months of the year compared with the same period last year, Indonesia's Antara news agency reported.

Malaysia has become the fourth largest in number of visitors to Bali from the fifth earlier, Head of Bali Central Statistic Agency (BPS) I Gede Suarsa said here on Friday.

"The number of visitors from Malaysia is larger than those from Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Britain," Suarsa said, noting that around 92,410 Malaysians visited Bali in the first half of the year, up 11.35 per cent from the same period last year.

According to Antara, the number made up 6.19 per cent of the total number of 1,493,020 foreign visitors to the world famous resort island in the January-June period this year.

Suarsa however said a decline was recorded only in the number of visitors from South Korea and Britain.

-- BERNAMA

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