Australians are still flocking to the Indonesian island of Bali at the rate of more than 16,000 a week - making up more than quarter of the visitors to the holiday idyll every year.
New figures from Indonesia's Central Statistics Agency reveal that of the near 2.5 million arrivals in Bali from January to September this year, more than 600,000 came from Australia.
That is despite increasing warnings of potential illness amongst travellers, with at least seven Australians recently catching measles while holidaying on the island, and a dramatic increase in other infectious diseases caught while there in recent years.
Local tourism bosses in Bali are upbeat that the number of Australian visitors will continue to grow as infrastructure improves and the number of direct flights increases.
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