REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, DENPASAR -- The number of foreign visitors to Bali rose 14.78 percent year-on-year to 3.41 mill;ion in the first 11 months of 2014.

"Most of the holidaymakers came via the Ngurah Rai international airport with the rest coming boarding cruise ships," head of the provincial office of the Central Bureau of Statistics Panusunan Siregar said here on Friday (2/1)

He said the number of visitors already overshot the target of 2.9 million for the whole year.

Increase was recorded in the number of visitors from nine of 10 main countries of origin. A decline was recorded in the number of visitors from Taiwan from 119,705 visitors in the first 11 months if 2013 to 106,850 in the same period in 2014.

Panasunan Siregar said visitors from Australia rose 18.7 percent to 895,069 from 754,049.

The number of visitors from Australia made up 26.18 percent of the total number of foreign visitors to Bali, followed by visitors from China totaling 539,371 or an increase of 49.28 percent ; from Malaysia rose 14.87 percent to 172,487 tourists and from Japan totaling 195,541 tourists or an increase of 1.64 percent.

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