Tourism industry grows 1.69%
The tourism industry grew around 1.69% from January to May, with foreign tourist arrivals reaching 2.4 million, up 40,098 from the same period last year, giving optimism that the target for the Visit Indonesia Year 2009 of 6.5 million foreign tourist arrivals would be achieved, Antara reported.
"The global economic crisis has not affected our tourism very much, particularly tourist arrivals," Director General of Marketing at the Ministry of Culture and Tourism Sapta Nirwandar said on Friday.
To meet the target various strategic and promotion efforts have been intensified including sending sales missions, offering cheap tourist packages and farm trips and increasing promotion through print and electronic media.
He said the number of tourists from Australia in the first five months reached 165,137, up 26.25%.
The number of tourists from other countries such as the Middle East rose around 42.04%, Europe 10.23% and China 18.96%.
He said tourist arrivals from other Asian countries in the period such as Singapore were recorded at minus 6.72%, Japan minus 13.80% and South Korea minus 27.28%.
"The global economic crisis has not affected our tourism very much, particularly tourist arrivals," Director General of Marketing at the Ministry of Culture and Tourism Sapta Nirwandar said on Friday.
To meet the target various strategic and promotion efforts have been intensified including sending sales missions, offering cheap tourist packages and farm trips and increasing promotion through print and electronic media.
He said the number of tourists from Australia in the first five months reached 165,137, up 26.25%.
The number of tourists from other countries such as the Middle East rose around 42.04%, Europe 10.23% and China 18.96%.
He said tourist arrivals from other Asian countries in the period such as Singapore were recorded at minus 6.72%, Japan minus 13.80% and South Korea minus 27.28%.