Bali tourism buoyant as inbound arrivals soar
March 19th, 2009
Source: PATA; The Moodie Report
By Dermot Davitt
INDONESIA. Direct international tourist arrivals to Bali surged by +17.7% year-on-year in January, to 164,643 visitors, according to the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA). The organisation quoted figures from PATA member Bali Discovery Tours.
Australia is now the top source market, replacing Japan, PATA noted. It said: “Arrivals from Australia (27,873) accounted for some 37.8% of the total for January 2009. Japan is in second spot with 25,324 arrivals while China (PRC) has risen from fifth to third place with 23,115.”Â
Bali ended 2008 with a record two million international arrivals. And despite the early-year promise, the Bali Tourism Authority is urging caution over the year ahead. It has forecast a drop of -8.6% in tourism arrivals for 2009.
Bali’s tourism industry has faced a series of crises in recent years including the terrorist bombings of 2002 and 2005, and the bird flu scare in 2003, each prompting a plunge in visitor traffic, notably from Japan.
The latest PATA Quarterly Tourism Monitor (for Q4 2008) underlined the positive signs for travel and tourism in Indonesia as a whole. The number of international arrivals to the country, measured at 15 ports of entry, rose by +17.2% in the last quarter of 2008 to nearly 1.38 million. Total numbers of international visitors to Indonesia in 2008 rose by +13.2% (compared to calendar year 2007) to over 6.23 million.
Source: www.moodiereport.com
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