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Bali airport loses US$40 thousand daily due to Mount Raung eruption

6 Aug 2015 05:03:40

indonesianewsstand.com

Denpasar, Bali (ANTARA News) - The management of I Gusti Ngurah Rai international airport has lost US$40 thousand per day due to Mount Raung's eruption that has frequently forced temporary closures of the airport, Tourism Minister Arief Yahya stated. "Due to the closures of the Ngurah Rai airport, 10,000 foreign tourists failed to arrive in Bali per day. Moreover, on a weekend day, around 14,000 foreign tourists could not land on the Island of Gods (Bali)," he said. "In total, there were 41 thousand foreign tourists," Yahya noted while inspecting the Crisis Center Command Post of Mount Raung Eruption at the airport, here on Tuesday.


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