Chinese tourists to Bali almost double
The number of Chinese tourists coming to Indonesia’s resort island of Bali has risen to 23,100 in January, an increase of 82.6 percent compared to the December period.
Chinese tourists made up 14.01 percent of foreign tourists visiting and holidaying on the resort island in January said the local statistic agency.
“That is a 82.6 percent increase from the 12,654 Chinese tourists that visited the island in the preceding month,” head of the Bali Provincial Office of the Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) Ida Komang Wisnu said.
In 2008, 131,319 Chinese tourists and holiday makers visited Bali, which is 55.82 percent up from the year before when the number was 84,278.
China is now ranked the third after Australia and Japan in terms of the amount of tourists visiting and holidaying in Bali.
