Number of Indian tourists travelling to Bali goes up significantly, data reveals

Central Statistics Agency (BPS) has released a data which says there has been hike of 55.1 percent Indian tourists visiting Bali from January to October this year as compared to the last year during the same period.
The data revealed that 222,516 Indian tourists visited Bali during the 10-month period this year. BPS Bali head I Gede Nyoman Subadri was in Denpasar recently where he said "Most of them entered through Ngurah Rai Airport by direct flight from India. Only 1,400 came to Bali by cruise ship."


He also mentioned that India has contributed a lot to Bali tourism and has become the fourth-most foreign visitors to Bali after China, Australia and Japan. The data said that India’s contribution has been 4.43 percent of total of foreign visitors to Bali, which touched 5.02 million tourists from the months of January and October 2017. The 23.3 percent hike from last year is quite significant in several ways. According to the data released, Australia and Malaysia are the only two out of ten countries which have shown immense decline for some reason while the other eight have recorded a momentous boost of foreign visitors.

The countries that recorded growth in foreign tourists include China (57.06 percent), Germany (19.18 percent), Japan (12.27 percent), the United States of America (18.39 percent), the United Kingdom (15.39 percent), South Korea (26.77 percent) and France (10.09 percent).