Ngurah Rai Airport, Bali, serving an average of 1.95 million passengers per month during the January-August 2018 period from a total of 15.6 million people, up eight percent compared to the previous year. 

"Passenger statistics from year to year continue to increase and we hope to boost the target of foreign tourists visiting," said General Manager of I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport Yanus Suprayogi in Denpasar on Thursday. 

According to him, if the number of passenger movements on average per day reached 64,300 people or per hour it reached an average of 3,388 people. 

Out of a total of 15.6 passengers over the past eight months, 4.1 million are foreign nationals or foreign tourists.

That number jumped 6.61 percent compared to the same period the previous year reaching 3.8 million. 

The achievement of the number of foreign tourists for eight months, continued Yanus, contributed to almost 62 percent of the total foreign tourist target to Bali this year reaching 6.27 million people. 

Meanwhile, if specified based on the origin of foreign passengers from 4.1 million foreign tourists, 23.5 percent of them from China made the country sit in the first position. 

The second position was occupied by Australia as much as 18.6 percent, followed by India (5.9 percent), England (4.4) and Japan (4.1 percent). 

Other countries namely the United States, France, Malaysia, Germany and South Korea occupy the top 10 countries contributing the largest number of foreign tourists. 

Meanwhile in the aircraft movement statistics for the period of January-August 2018, there were 107,338 aircraft going in and out of I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport, both through Domestic Terminals and International Terminals. 

That amount, he said, was an increase from the same recording period in 2017 reaching 96,723 aircraft served by the airport or an increase of 11 percent.