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More than one years United States travel warning issues for Indonesia. It’s have relation with Indonesia security after Bali bomb II. Indonesia tourism affected with this issues, but it’s not significant to decrease Lombok Tourism. The number of overseas tourist coming to Indonesia amounted to 2.14 million people in the first semester of this year, which was 12.22 percent higher compared to the same period last year at 1.91 million people.
June is usually the peak season for foreign tourist arrivals in Indonesia as the northern hemisphere has its summer,” Central Statistics Agency (BPS) head, Rusman Heriawan told reporters during the BPS’s monthly briefing in Jakarta on Wednesday, Rusman added that the number of foreign tourists arriving in Bali, the country’s most popular tourist destination, amounted to about 151.000 in June, an increase of 11.7 percent over the 135.000 record in May.
He said the figures showed that the travel warning did not have a significant effect on the growth in tourist arrival.
“American tourists, who are usually the most demanding, only accounted for about 59.000 out of the total 2.14 million foreign tourists in the first semester he said. In general, Rusman said, Indonesian tourism would not be badly affected by the recent travel warning from the US and Australia – issued in early July, or the recent ban on Indonesia airlines by the European Union (EU) and the United Arab Emirate (UAE).
He argued that the reason was because the number of tourist from these countries was far lower than the numbers coming from neighboring countries such as; Singapore and Malaysia.
“Singapore is the biggest contributor to tourism in term of numbers. The total figure almost reached half a million people over the course of the first semester,” Rusman said. He said the reason for this was because Singapore was close to Batam and Bintan.“The Singaporeans usually come on Saturday, mostly to Batam and Bintan, to spend their weekends or just to shop,’ he said.
The second biggest contributor was Malaysia, with a total of 283.000 people. “Malaysian tourists are of better ‘quality’ than Singaporean tourists as they spend more time here due to culturalties and their long relationship with Indonesia”, he said. Japanese tourists were also quality tourists, he said, with the total number of Japanese visiting Indonesia amounting to about 215.000 in the first semester.
Japan’s Civil Aviation Bureau (CAB) examined a Garuda Indonesia aircraft and concluded that the carrier was safe.
Garuda has been classified as unsafe by the European Commission and banned from flying to the region, along with 50 other Indonesian airlines.
This decision was then followed by the UEA. |
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