DENPASAR, Bali — Bali welcomed round 4.7 million international vacationers between January and August 2026, with Australians making up the most important group of worldwide arrivals, in response to immigration information cited by I Gusti Ngurah Rai Worldwide Airport.
Australian passport holders accounted for round 1.1 million arrivals in the course of the eight-month interval, nicely forward of different main tourism markets.
Chinese language guests ranked second with round 418,000 arrivals, adopted by India with 363,000, the UK with 206,000 and South Korea with 203,000.
The figures underline Australia’s continued significance to Bali’s tourism trade, with a number of Australian cities additionally among the many airport’s busiest worldwide routes.
Between January and August, Perth recorded round 794,000 passenger actions, Melbourne 731,000 and Sydney 574,000.
Singapore remained the airport’s busiest worldwide route general, with round 1.7 million passenger actions, adopted by Kuala Lumpur with 1 million.
I Gusti Ngurah Rai Worldwide Airport dealt with a complete of 15.5 million passengers in the course of the first eight months of 2026, together with round 10 million worldwide passengers and 5.5 million home passengers.
Airport Basic Supervisor Nugroho Jati mentioned the figures confirmed Bali remained one among Indonesia’s hottest locations for each home and worldwide travellers.
The airport recorded round 94,000 plane actions over the identical interval, together with roughly 52,000 worldwide and 42,000 home actions.
By the tip of August, Ngurah Rai Airport was serving 65 routes, comprising 41 worldwide routes operated by 44 airways and 24 home routes served by 11 airways.
Airport authorities mentioned they plan to strengthen connectivity via new routes, extra airways and elevated flight frequencies.
Ngurah Rai Airport has additionally continued to improve its services, together with the opening of a connecting bridge between the worldwide and home terminals in August geared toward making transfers extra environment friendly.
The sturdy arrival figures come as Bali continues to rely closely on worldwide tourism, with Australia remaining its single largest abroad customer market.
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