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25 Jan, 2014

Bali attracted 3.27m foreign tourists in 2013 – Bali Daily

Bali has exceeded its target of attracting 3.1 million foreign tourists last year, as the number of direct foreign tourist arrivals to the island reached 3.27 million.

The provincial Tourism Agency on Wednesday released the official data on the number of foreign tourists visiting Bali from January to December 2013, which amounted to 3,278,697 people.

The figure was an increase of 13.37 percent from the total number of direct foreign tourist arrivals in 2012, which reached 2,892,019.

“It surpassed our target of 3.1 million. The percentage achievement reached 103 percent,” said agency head Ida Bagus Kade Subhiksu, confirming the data.

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