Tourist arrivals in Bali - Jakarta Post

The number of foreign tourists visiting Bali during the first half of the year increased by 6.61 percent to 1.49 this year from 1.40 million in the corresponding period last year, according to data of the Bali office of the Central Statistics Agency (BPS).
“Most of them entered Bali through the Ngurah Rai International Airport and only 19,739 tourists arrived via port [the Gilimanuk port],” Bali BPS head Gede Suarsa said in Denpasar, Bali, on Friday as quoted by Antara news agency.
He added that Bali expects around 2.8 million foreign tourists this year, a target which is lesser than the number of foreign tourists who visited Bali last year, 2.94 million people.
To reach the target, he went on, the Bali administration conducted intensive promotion in a number of prospective countries.
According to Gede, Japan is the first on the list of countries sending more tourists to Bali, followed by China, Singapore, Malaysia, the United States, Taiwan, Australia and France. He added tourists from South Korea and England had shown a significant drop. (hrl)