Just Balinese

While thousands of local licensed tour guides speak a second language, an industry group says that there is still a shortage of guides who can speak Mandarin and Russian, among several other languages.

Only 5,200 of more than 8,300 licensed tour guides that have been registered with the Bali Tourism Agency were currently active in the field.

More than 1,300 of the registered guides speak English, a further 1,300 speak Japanese, 790 speak Mandarin, 650 speak Korean, 269 speak German, 169 speak French, 145 speak Italian, 111 speak Russian, 101 speak Spanish and 73 speak Dutch.

Although there are plenty of tour guides, they still having shortages, especially in Mandarin and Russian. The shortages are felt especially during the peak season period.

That's Balinese, first more tourists have to come, and when they finally are here, they don't have the guides for them.

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