Bali earns best island title for 12th consecutive year

Indonesia's resort island of Bali has earned the Best Island title awarded by Singapore's influential travel website DestinAsian through its recent 2017 Readers Choice Award. It was the 12th such title received by the island from the media consecutively.

The award was resulted from the readers' picks on best Asian prominent destination islands asked by the website.

Natural beauties, cultural and culinary richness, commendable hospitality accommodation and local people's friendliness were accounted as reasons to pick Bali as the best Asian destination island.

Bali outclassed Phuket, Maldives and Langkawi in DestinAsian RCA's 10 best Asian destinations with Indonesia's Lombok picked at the tenth.

Indonesian Tourism Minister Arief Yahya hailed such an appreciation from the reputable travel review website, saying that it would encourage the efforts to further boost the tourism sector which has been declared as the nation's core business.