Bali tourist numbers jump by 30 per cent
More holiday-makers heading to Indonesia’s resort island of Bali boosted overall tourist arrivals by 12.22 per cent in the first half of 2007 compared to last year, according to data released Wednesday.
The number of foreign tourists heading to Indonesia climbed to 2.14 million in the first six months of the year, official figures from the Central Bureau of Statistics showed.
Visitors coming through Bali’s Ngurah Rai airport rose 33.7 percent to 781,059, while the number of tourists passing through Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta airport dropped 1.9 percent to 554,086.
The spike in arrivals signals a rebound for the resort island’s tourism industry, which has suffered in recent years amid security concerns.
For the month of June, overall arrivals through Indonesia’s 15 entry points rose to 411,264, up 12 percent from 366,137 in May, the bureau said.
AFP
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
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