File photo of Indonesian Minister for Tourism and Creative Economy Mari Elka Pangestu.
Bandung in West Java has seen highest growth in the number of tourist arrivals in the first six months of the year indicating the city was a hot destination not only for Jakartans but also for foreign tourists.
Tourism data from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS), released on Wednesday, showed that tourists from Egypt, though small in number, grew 45.5 percent to 2,200 compared to 1,500 in the same period last year. The numbers of travelers coming from Saudi Arabia and the Philippines also saw healthy growth of 21.2 percent and 15.7 percent respectively.
The main drivers of the overall tourist growth, however, were Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, China and Japan. The number of foreign tourists who visited Indonesia in the first semester of 2012 reached 3.87 million or a 7.75 percent increase compared to the same period last year, according to the BPS.
?This is a good achievement because the figure is close to the overall Asia Pacific tourism growth of 8 percent and better than the global tourism growth of 5 percent,? Tourism and Creative Economy Minister Mari Elka Pangestu told reporters in Jakarta on Wednesday.
?We believe that we are on track to reach our target of attracting 8 million tourists by the end of this year, and we are going to further promote Indonesia to the world,? she said. In total, 7.65 million foreign tourists came to Indonesia last year, up 9.24 percent from 2010.
Mari said Japan had shown a gradual recovery from the 2011 tsunami as 200,093 Japanese visited Indonesia from January to June this year, a 5 percent increase on last year. ?We?ve also seen significant growth from Egypt, the Philippines and Saudi Arabia during the first semester,? she added.
The highest first semester increase in arrivals was recorded at Husein Sastranegara International Airport in Bandung, which recorded 74,021 foreign arrivals, a 29 percent increase from 57,395 over the same period last year. In June this year alone, the airport received 15,417 tourists, up 39.16 percent from 11,079 in the same month last year.
For several years Bandung has been a destination for tourists from Malaysia, who crowd the fashion factory outlets in the city that are a weekend getaway for Jakartans.
The main gateway for tourist arrivals in Indonesia, Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali, recorded 1.36 million visitors from January to June 2012, up 5.83 percent from 1.29 million in the same period last year.
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