Bali enjoyed a 47 percent increase in the number of British tourists visiting the island in the first quarter of the year, from 21,859 people in the same period in 2010 to 32,129 people this year.
“They mostly entered [Bali] through Ngurah Rai Airport aboard direct flights from their country; only 1,179 people came via the sea port on board cruises,” Bali Central Statistics Agency chief Gede Suarsa said Thursday in Denpasar.
British tourists thus represent 3.78 percent of the total of 848,899 foreign tourists in Bali in the first quarter of 2011; an increase of 13 percent compared with the same period last year, Gede said.
He added that throughout 2010, a total of 96,412 British tourists visited Bali, an increase of 2.8 percent from the year before.
The recent figure has made Britain the seventh-largest contributor of foreign tourists to Bali after Australia, China, Japan, Malaysia, Taiwan and South Korea. Earlier, it was ranked ninth.
In the first quarter, Bali similarly saw increases in the numbers of visitors from Australia, up by 35 percent compared to the same period last year; China (up by 0.19 percent); Malaysia (33 percent); Russia (27 percent); Singapore (43 percent); and France (15 percent).
The number of tourists from Japan, Taiwan and South Korea, meanwhile, declined by 22 percent, 10.5 percent and 1 percent, Antara reported.
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