RI tourism seen region's most robust<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA)
\nforesees that Indonesia will become the most robust tourist
\ndestination in the region, with an average annual growth of 12.6
\npercent until the year 2000.<\/p>\n
The association said in its 1996 annual report that: \"The
\nmajor destinations -- Hong Kong, Singapore and Thailand --
\ncontinued to maintain their top positions in the rankings in
\n1995, but among the bigger players, China, Indonesia and
\nAustralia have shown the strongest overall growth in the 1990s.\"<\/p>\n
China and Indonesia have now moved respectively into fourth
\nand fifth places in the arrivals ranking, ousting the high-cost
\ndestinations of Japan and South Korea, whose numbers have
\nremained stagnant, the report said.<\/p>\n
By 2000, the leading destinations are forecast to be China
\n(with 12.3 million tourist arrivals), Hong Kong (10.5 million),
\nThailand (9 million), Singapore and Malaysia (8.8 million each)
\nand Indonesia (7.7 million).<\/p>\n
With an estimated average annual growth of about 12.6 percent
\nto the year 2000, Indonesia will be followed by China (12.3
\npercent), Hong Kong (10.5 percent) and the Philippines (8.4
\npercent).<\/p>\n
Indonesia targets to attract 7.8 million tourists in 2000.
\nExperts, however, predict that an optimistic projection of
\ntourist arrivals for 2000 would be 6.82 million, 6.55 million for
\na moderate projection and 5.85 million for a pessimistic
\nprojection.<\/p>\n
The number of tourist arrivals in Indonesia last year grew by
\nsome 7 percent to 4.7 million, bringing in US$52 billion in
\nrevenue to the country. The country expects to earn between $6.57
\nbillion and $6.94 billion from 4.78 million to 5.05 million
\nforeign tourists this year.<\/p>\n
Tourism is expected to become the country's biggest foreign
\nexchange earner by the end of the Seventh Five-Year Development
\nPlan (Repelita VII) in 2004, outperforming the oil and gas
\nsector.<\/p>\n
The government has predicted that the growth rate of tourist
\narrivals will reach 12.23 percent in the 1995\/2005 period.<\/p>\n
According to the Pacific Asia Travel Association, origin
\nmarkets forecast to show the sharpest annual growth up to 2000
\nwill be from South Korea (a 15.2 percent average annual
\nincrease), Indonesia (14.2 percent), Taiwan (11.8 percent) and
\nthe Philippines (11.1 percent), while the largest long-haul
\nmarket, the United States, will also be the fastest growing at
\n7.7 percent annually.<\/p>\n
The association concluded that while overall increases in
\ntourist arrivals in the Asia-Pacific region will be bigger than
\never, there will be a slowdown in overall growth rates to the
\nyear 2000.<\/p>\n
Forecasting an average addition of 5.8 million arrivals each
\nyear to 99 million in 2000, the report projects that two-thirds
\nof this total will be intra-regional travelers, expected to grow
\nby 7.9 percent annually, leading to some 63 million that year.<\/p>\n
\"Parallel to the economic performance of the Asia-Pacific
\nregion in the past few years has been dynamic expansion in the
\ntourism sector. The speed with which this has happened has been
\nalmost unprecedented and has become something of a byword within
\nthe industry.<\/p>\n
\"Thus, compared with average world tourism growth of 5.1 per
\nannum between 1991 and 1995, the PATA region increased its
\narrivals by 9.3 percent a year, to over 7.1 million over the same
\nperiod (plus 6.6 million arrivals in Hawaii, the majority of whom
\nare domestic travelers from the United States); and from a 10.8
\npercent share of world arrivals in 1991, PATA's share had
\nincreased by 2 percentage points to 12.7 percent in 1995,\" the
\nreport said.<\/p>\n
The increases in tourist receipts have been even greater, the
\nreport said.<\/p>\n
According to the report, one characteristic that is emerging,
\nis that markets are beginning to segment. The biggest change in
\ntravel patterns is likely to be an increase in holiday travel,
\nparticularly in beach-based holidays resulting in a greater need
\nfor more resort-type hotels. (icn)<\/p>",
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