I N T E R N A T I O N A L
16 Pages Number 112 5th Year Price: Rp 3.000,-
WEATHER FORECAST 23 - 32 DPS
e-mail: info_ibp@balipost.co.id online: http://www.internationalbalipost.com. http://epaper.internationalbalipost.com.
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Not Published Queen Elizabeth to mark sixdecade reign
Sevilla accept City bid for Navas
Page 6
Page 8
We, The International Bali Post would like to aplogize in advance because we will not be pulished on Wednesday, June 5, 2013.
Foreign tourists visited Bali reached 969,382 people Antara
DENPASAR - In the Indonesian tourist resort island of Bali, more than than 969,382 foreign tourists have visited Bali in the first four months of 2013, up 3.60 percent from the same period last year when the figure was recorded at 935,724. “The number of tourists from eight of the top ten sources of foreign tourists in Bali rose significantly while that of two others declined,” Head of the Bali Provincial Statistics Office Gede Suarsa said. Bali has set the target of tourist arrivals for 2013 at 2.8 million, while more than 2.94 foreign tourists visited the world-renowned tourist island last year.
Gede said a total of 242,935 Australian tourists visited Bali in the first four months to April, an increase of 2.07 percent compared to the same period last year. The figure put Australia in the first place, contributing 25.06 percent of the overall tourist arrivals in the January-April 2013 period. This was followed by China in second with 128,134 tourists, Japan in third with 65,438 tourists,
Tourists taking horse ride at Gangga Beach that located in Tabanan recently. In the Indonesian tourist resort island of Bali, more than than 969,382 foreign tourists have visited Bali in the first four months of 2013, up 3.60 percent from the same period last year when the figure was recorded at 935,724.
and Malaysia in fourth with 53,027 tourists. Taiwan was in sixth with 38,298 tourists, Singapore in eighth with 34,511 tourists, Russia in ninth with 34,182 tourists and the US in tenth with 32,896 tourists. Compared to the same period last year, the number of tourists from Australia visiting Bali in the year ended April 31, 2013 rose 2.07 percent, China 3.09 percent, Japan 18.22 percent, Malaysia 5.03 percent, Taiwan 4.42 percent, Russia 4.43 percent, Singapore 6.03 percent and the US 15.50 percent. However, the number of tourists from South Korea fell 2.99 percent to 40,483 and the UK declined 8.98 percent to 33,181.
Despite the drop, South Korea remained in fifth and the UK in seventh among the top ten sources of tourist arrivals in Bali. Meanwhile, the number of foreign tourists arrivals in Jakarta in April 2013 stood at 168,989, down 12.04 percent from 192,108 in March 2013, according to the Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS). The foreign tourists arrived in Jakarta through three gates, namely Soekarno-Hatta airport, Tanjung Priok Port and Halim Perdanakusumah airport. But compared with foreign tourist arrivals in the same month in 2012, the arrivals last April is 0.86 percent bigger.
The big ten countries exporting their foreign tourists to Jakarta in April were Malaysia (20,444 tourists), China (19,734), Japan (14,893), Singapore (13,222), Korea Selatan (7,932), Saudi Arabia (7,177), Australia (6,126), India (5,932 ), the United States(5,914) and the Philippines (5,553). Regarding the hotel occupancy rate in Jakarta, the BPS records showed that in April 2013, it reached 58.60 percent, up 0.84 points from that in March 2013 which stood at 57.76 percent. The occupancy rate in April 2012 reached 57.91 percent showing that the occupancy rate in April 2013 was higher 0.69 points.
IBP/Budi Wirianto