REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, DENPASAR -- As many as 301,748 foreign tourists visited the resort island of Bali in January 2015, up 8.05 percent from 279,257 tourists in the same month last year.

"Compared to December 2014, the number of tourist arrivals in January 2015 dropped 13.13 percent," Head of the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) Office in Bali Province Panusunan Siregar stated here on Monday (2/3).

During the year 2014, as many as 3.76 million foreign tourists visited Bali, a 14.89 percent increase as compared to 3.27 million tourists recorded a year before.

Panusunan remarked that the number of tourists from seven of the top ten sources of foreign tourist arrivals in Bali rose significantly, while the number of tourists from the other three countries fell.

Australia still ranked first in the list of top ten sources of tourist arrivals in Bali in January 2015, with 85,059 tourists, up 19.32 percent from 71,288 tourists in the same month last year.

The number of Japanese tourists rose significantly by 25.43 percent to 17,882 in January 2015 from 14,256 in the same month last year, thereby placing the country in the third position in the list of top ten sources of tourist arrivals in Bali.

The number of South Korean tourists also increased 23.81 percent from 12,223 in January 2014 to 15,133 in January 2015.

Meanwhile, the number of tourist arrivals from Britain increased 26.56 percent, the United States 8.84 percent, Taiwan 0.47 percent, and India 28.65 percent.

The number of tourists from China fell 0.45 percent, Malaysia 11.80 percent, and Singapore 11.10 percent, he added.

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