Despite the drop, Taiwan remained in the fifth place as a source of foreign tourist arrivals in Bali after Australia, China, Japan and Malaysia, Head of the Bali Provincial Statistics Office I Gede Suarsa said on Saturday.
Taiwanese tourists represented 4.58 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 when the figure was 563,847, he said.
Last year, 122,255 Taiwanese tourists visited the world-renowned tourist resort, a 1.50 percent increase compared to 120,455 in the year before.
Overall, Australia remained on top as the source country of tourist arrivals in Bali in the three months through March with 156,093 tourists, up 28.59 percent from the same period last year when the figure was 120,238.
Although the number of Chinese tourists visiting Bali fell 2.15 percent to 56,971 from 58,225, China overtook Japan as the second largest source of foreign tourist arrivals in Bali in the first three months of 2011.
A total of 52,253 Japanese tourists visited Bali in the year to March 2011, falling 19.68 percent from 65,059 in the same period a year earlier.
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.
(Uu.S012/HAJM/F001)
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