"The significant increase sends Singapore to eighth from ninth place among the top ten sources of foreign tourist arrivals in the resort island," Head of the Bali Provincial Statistics Office Gede Suarsa said here on Sunday.
Last year, 97,402 Singapore tourists visited Bali, a 73.96 percent surge from 55,992 a year earlier.
"Singapore is one of the potential market for Bali tourism. Hopefully, more and more Singapore tourists will visit Bali in the years to come," he said.
He said the Singapore tourists accounted for 3.78 percent of the overall tourist arrivals in the five months through May which reached 1.05 million, up 6.61 percent from 992,335 in the same period last year.
Australia remained on top as the biggest source of tourist arrivals in Bali in the first five months of 2011 with 275,975 tourists, up 29.34 percent from 231,361 in the same period last year.
China trailed behind in the second place with 87,038 tourists, a 4.19 percent increase compared to 83,535.
In the third place was Malaysia with 65,950 tourists, jumping 25.41 percent from 53,383, followed by South Korea with 48,852, up 0.45 percent from 48,631, Britain with 39,963, up 31.74 percent from 30,335, France with 38,426, up 8.37 percent from 35,264 and Russia with 35,853, up 25.72 percent from 28,518. (*)
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