About 60 percent of all tourist travel agency members

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About 60 percent of all tourist travel agency members of the Association Corporate Travel Indonesia (ASITA) Provinsi Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta (DIY) torpidity business, because the decrease of foreign tourists to visit this area.

"From 140 travel agency members ASITA DIY tour, there were about 80 bureaus in the condition in which a dead faint," said General Chairman of the Regional Board (DPD) Corporate Travel Association of India (ASITA) Special Region of Yogyakarta (DIY) MA Desky in Yogyakarta, Sunday .

According to him, such conditions will continue this year because the number of visits to the DIY Wisman is down about 25 percent compared to the number of visits Wisman 2008 that reached 150,000 people.

"Indeed, from a number of travel agency business which is considered a dead faint, at the time could have lived longer when Wisman entourage who bought a tour package to visit Yogyakarta. However, if there is no traffic, so they remain a dead faint," he said.

According to him, even though the condition torpor, travel agency must keep its employees, because it can not do so only termination of employment (PHK) of the workers, considering they have a family that must dihidupi.

To maintain life, then tour the travel agency business conditions torpidity develop business with selling tickets for the aircraft, although the benefits are very small, even simply be alive.

"Thus, almost 60 percent of travel agency in selling Yogyakata ticket for just memrpertahankan life business," said Desky.

He cite the small advantage into sales agent plane tickets, plane ticket to Yogyakarta-Jakarta that are Rp400.000, agents only benefit Rp5.000 per ticket.

"Therefore, if ticket sales omzet aircraft below Rp500 million, the travel agency can not survive, and new life can be if sales omzet above Rp500 million," he said.

According to him, this year's visit to the DIY Wisman is estimated to decline, due to the influence of global financial crisis Wisman, especially from countries in Europe and America.

Meanwhile, Wisman origin countries in Asia still have to visit the DIY.

"The crisis is clear there is the impact on tourism, not only in the DIY, but also tourism in Bali, Lombok and other tourist destination in Indonesia," he said.

He said that since the beginning can be predicted that the traffic Wisman in 2009 will go down, and automatic Wisman to come to Yogyakarta also decreased in number, and all of that also affect the level of residential hotels in Yogyakarta.

"During 2009 the number of Wisman to come to Yogyakarta is not akan Wisman equal number of visits in 2008 which reached 150,000 people. The number of visits Wisman achievement is below 2008, or at least 25 percent down," he said.