Indonesia tourist arrivals rises 1.69%

Indonesian tourist arrivals rises 1.69%
Jero Wacik The minister of Tourism predicted that Indonesia will get 6.7 million for 2009 tourist arrivals.
National tourist arrivals rose 1.69% during the first six months of 2009, totaling 2.41 million.

Bisnis.com cites Indonesia 's minister of culture and tourism, Jero Wacik, which points to the statistics of the arrival later as evidence that the financial crisis the world is having minimal impact on the national tourism industry. Speaking in Bandung, West Java, Wacik said, graph shows that this increase is because gladdening in the middle of a crisis when visitors to several other destinations of tourism decline.

The countries of the statement that the momentum gained during the period January - May, Minister Wacik cpunted out of the following increases in arrivals from source markets: Australia (26.25%), China (18.96%) and Malaysia (16.81%). If the current trend continues, I are optimistic that the 2009 target can be achieved Wacik added.

Indonesia is targeting 6.7 million foreign visitors for the entire year of 2009. Despite the optimism indic ministers, a constant growth rate in arrivals of 1.69% would lead only to 5.6 million arrivals in 2009.

The modest increase in tourism arrivals to Indonesia occurred when, in the fate of neighboring Singapore, the arrivals fell by 11.8% - a decrease from 401,957 - between January and April. The tourism arrivals also declined by 19.69% to 27.2% in Thailand and the Japan