The drop put Japan in third from second place among the top ten sources of Bali`s foreign tourist arrivals.Denpasar (ANTARA News) - The number of Japanese tourists visiting Bali in the first quarter of 2011 fell 19.68 percent to 52,253 from 65,059 in the same period last year.
"The drop put Japan in third from second place among the top ten sources of Bali`s foreign tourist arrivals," Head of the Bali Provincial Statistics Office I Gede Suarsa said on Friday.
Because of the drop China overtook Japan as the second largest source of the province`s tourist arrivals, he said.
He said the Japanese tourists represented 8.37 percent of the overall tourist arrivals in Bali in the January-March 2011 period which reached 624,195, up 10.70 percent compared with the same period last year.
Last year, 245,040 Japanese tourists visited the world-renowned tourist resort, a 26.61 percent decline compared with the year before.
Overall, Australia remained on top as the source country of tourist arrivals in Bali in the first three months of 2011 with 156,093 tourists, up 28.59 percent from the same period last year when the figure was 120,238.
In the fourth place was Malaysia with 40,118 tourists, up 45.63 percent from 27,548 in the same period last year. This was followed by Russia with 26,596 tourists, a 25.16 percent rise from a year earlier.
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