Best year forecast for Bali
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This unprecented number of arrivals in Bali this July has prompted hopes of a best-ever year for the recovering island.
Bali Update (www.balidiscovery.com) said foreign tourist arrivals for July hit 183,122 making it the best July ever, improving by 11% over last year’s record-breaking performance for July 2007 (164,618).
January-July arrivals for this year have broken the psychological barrier of one million, recording 1,108.061 foreign arrivals for the first seven months of the year. Compared to the same period in 2007, when there were 910,567 visitors, arrivals are up almost 22% this year, the report said.
According to Bali Update, the Indonesian island’s top four inbound markets are Japan, Australia, Taiwan and South Korea. It said Japan’s recovery is now complete with arrivals for January-July 2008 (208,506) representing the best performance ever. Australia’s recovery is equally robust totalling 164,641 for the first seven months of 2008.
If Bali maintains this growth rate, it could end the year at just over two million foreign visitors, the first time ever that tourist arrivals will surpass the two million mark.
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