Denpasar, Bali (ANTARA News) - The number of Singaporean tourists visiting Bali surged 56.71 percent to 48,347 in the year to July 2010 from a year earlier, putting the city state in the ninth place among top ten sources of foreign tourists.

The Singaporean tourists were made up of 3.36 percent of the overall tourist arrivals in the world-renowned tourist island in the year to July 2010 reaching 1,435,016, head of the Bali provincial statistics office Ida Komang Wisnu said here on Sunday.

The number of tourist arrivals in the January-July 2010 period represented a 9.90 percent increase compared to the same period last year when the figure was recorded at 1,305,793, he said.

Ida Komang Wisnu said Singapore ranked ninth among the top ten sources of foreign tourists after Australia, Japan, China, Malaysia, Taiwan, South Korea, France and Britain.

"In 2009 Singapore did not belong to the group of top ten countries. But this time it ranks ninth, overtaking The Netherlands whose citizens visited Bali reached 46,347 (over the period)," he said.

All the Singaporean tourists visited Bali in the January-July 2010 period by direct flights from their country and none of them by ship, he said.

He said the number of Australian tourists visiting Bali in the first seven months of 2010 jumped 51.07 percent to 341,664 from 225,170, China 1.01 percent to 118,008 from 116,624, Britain 8.81 percent to 51.491 from 48,029, The Netherlands 26.78 percent to 46,347 from 36,557 and Taiwan 12.53 percent to 78,059 from 69,368.

However, the number of tourists from Japan fell 23,90 percent from 186,265 to 141,743, Taiwan 4.17 percent from 83,909 to 80,406, South Korea 4.15 percent from 74,096 to 71,019 and France 4.78 percent from 59,595 to 56,744, he said.
(Uu.S012/P003)

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