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Tourism Competitiveness Ranked

| Source: GOI
Indonesia has ranked 60th out of 124 in a new global survey on tourism competitiveness, The Jakarta Post reported.

Switzerland, Austria and Germany have the most attractive environments for developing the travel and tourism (T&T) industry, according to the very first ranking of its kind in the Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report 2007, released Thursday (1/3/07) by the World Economic Forum (WEF).

Iceland, the US, Hong Kong, Canada, Singapore, Luxembourg and the United Kingdom complete the top ten list, the WEF announced in a statement from Geneva.

Indonesia’s foreign tourist arrivals in January was up 6.91% year-on-year to 317,568.

Bali was the biggest draw with 115,557 arrivals in January, an increase of 35.86% year-on-year, the data showed, according to Agence France-Presse.
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