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Bali by the numbers: A historical perspective on top 4 markets and 5 new emerging markets of Bali. With foreign arrivals to Bali continuing to break all previous records, it is worthwhile to examine historical arrivals from Bali’s top four markets and new markets emerging over the past 9 years (2000-2008).

Bali’s Top Four Markets

Bali’s four top-producing markets of Japan, Taiwan, Australia, and South Korea have retained that position over the past nine years, with South Korea only emerging as a contender in 2003, following changes in South Korean travel policies. The two Bali terror attacks of October 2002 and October 2005 both caused arrivals to drop, but with recovery taking place on a more fast-paced basis following the second outrage.

New Emerging Markets for Bali

Arrivals from the People’s Republic of China, Russia, India, Malaysia and Singapore have risen dramatically. Russian, Chinese and Indian arrivals date their ascension from a loosening of visa rules by the Indonesian government for visitors from those countries and increasingly easy air access to Bali from those locations. Malaysian and Singaporean numbers are directly linked to the emergence of new low-cost airlines making a visit to Bali more affordable.

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