Denpasar, Bali  (ANTARA News) - More than 62,350 Britons holidayed in the resort island of Bali in the first eight months of 2010, up 6.49 percent from the same period last year.

"Most of them came to Bali by direct flights via Ngurah Rai Airport and only 219 of them by cruise liners," head of the Bali provincial statistics office Gede Suarsa said here.
 
Last year, a total of 85,060 British tourists visited Bali, a 12.44 percent increase from the year before, he said.

Suarsa said the rising number of British tourists raised Britain`s rank as Bali`s source of foreign tourists to eighth in August from ninth the month before.

Britain came eighth after Australia, Japan, China, Malaysia, Taiwan, South Korea and France, he said.

The British tourists contributed 3.72 percent of the overall tourist arrivals in Bali in the January-August 2010 period reaching 1,678,170. This represents a 9.11 percent increase from the corresponding period last year.

Compared to the same period last year, the number of tourist arrivals from six of the top ten sources of foreign tourists rose significantly while that of the other four declined.

The number of tourists from Australia rose 47.25 percent to 399,988 from 271,643, China 2.79 percent to 139,501 from 135,710, Taiwan 9.94 percent to 88,448 from 80,452, Germany 7.11 percent to 54,410 from 50,800, and Singapore 54.96 percent to 54,147 from 34,943.

However, the number of Japanese tourists fell 22.67 percent from 218,298 to 168,806, Malaysia 3.75 percent from 93,962 to 90,438, South Korea 2.09 percent from 85,123 to 83,342 and France 0.19 percent from 73,167 to 73.027, he said.
(Uu.S012/HAJM/A014/P003)

Editor: Priyambodo RH

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