Asia 30.10.2017
Russia is the leader by increasing of the tourist traffic to Bali in January-August 2017
According to the statistical office of Indonesia, in January-August the resorts of Bali Island were visited in total by almost 4 million tourists, increased by 18.89% against the same period of the previous year, At the same time, every fourth tourist in Bali was from China. The Chinese tourist flow today accounts 26.23% of the total number, reaching 1,048,270 people in January-August. In comparison with the same period of the last year, the number of Chinese tourists on the island increased by 58, 48%. On the 14-th place among out coming markets is Russia with an index of 63,441 tourist arrivals in January-August 2017 and a share of 1.59% of the total number of foreign arrivals. Against 2016 year, Russia climbed one step in the rating of abroad markets, pushing New Zealand on the 15-th place. In spite of low number, the Russian growth of tourist flow in comparison with the same period of 2016 is the highest among all abroad markets - 62.16%. 3912 tourists from Russian Federation visited Bali for 8 months of 2016. This is more than the growth figures of the leading countries - China and India.