More Europeans visit Bali

JAKARTA (JP): As many as 373,374 tourists from the European Union visited Bali in the January to September period, representing a 42.2 percent increase from the same period last year.

Tourists consisted of 89,653 visitors from England, 76,813 from Germany, 40,396 from Italy, 38,562 from the Netherlands, 16,267 from Switzerland, 22,790 from Sweden and 12,362 from Austria, the head of provincial tourism, I Gusti Agung Mega, said on Thursday in Denpasar.

The remainder of the tourists came from other EU countries such as Denmark, Spain and Belgium, Antara reported from Denpasar. (06)