Foreign Tourists Increase
Foreign tourists who came to Indonesia in 2004 is expected to increase much over the previous year. Last year, out of 13 door right? Including Soekarno-Hatta Airport, Ngurah Rai Airport, Polonia? Number of foreign tourist arrivals reached 4.54 million people. If coupled with that comes through the other door, the number of foreign tourists coming to Indonesia is estimated to reach 5.4 million people. Last year, foreign tourist arrivals to Indonesia only 4.47 million people. Means there is an increase of about 21 percent.
Number of foreign tourists last year well above the government target of 5.2 million people. “It seems that tourism is suffering from the condition of a number of bomb explosions in Indonesia have started to recover,” said Deputy Minister of Culture and Tourism Marketing, Udin Saifuddin. The dollar also brought the tourists to reach the government set targets, U.S. $ 4.8 billion. ‘Foreign exchange receipts increased by 18.85 percent from the year 2003 a U.S. $ 4 billion, “said Deputy Director General for Methodology and Statistical Information BPS, Mulyono Muah.
The government set a figure of 6 million foreign tourists and foreign exchange earnings of U.S. $ 5.4 billion this year. But misgivings arise due to the tsunami disaster that destroyed the beach on the west coast of Aceh. As a result, said Udin, a lot of tourists who canceled his visit to Indonesia last month. To the extent the Ministry of Culture and Tourism asked for an additional fee of U.S. $ 1 million to increase promotional activities in various countries.