DESTINATION -Government Optimistic Wisman Target Reached 6.5 Million

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DESTINATION -Government Optimistic Wisman Target Reached 6.5 Million

Ministry of Culture and Tourism (Depbudpar) revealed, target the Visit Indonesia Year (VIY) in 2009 as many as 6.5 million tourists will be achieved at the end of 2009.

"There is a trend increase in the number of tourist visits to various regions in Indonesia so that the target of 6.5 million people VIY it can be achieved," said Director General of Marketing Depbudpar, Sapta Nirwandar tourism market after the opening of Indonesia or Indonesian Tourism Mart Expo (TIME) 2009 at Senggigi tourism areas District of West Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB), Saturday.



TIME 2009 took place in the area of 2100 square meters for the 16-19 October 2009 and followed 127 "buyers" (buyers) from 25 countries, namely Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy and South Korea.

Other countries namely Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Thailand, United Kingdom and the United States and Indonesia.

"Seller" (seller) who has registered as many as 119 people from various provinces in Indonesia such as Jakarta, Bali, Central Java, West Java, Lampung, Central Sulawesi, South Sulawesi and North Sulawesi, East Kalimantan and West Nusa Tenggara host.

Sapta said that, from January to August 2009 an increase in the number of tourist visit to Indonesia by 1.56 percent.

Increasing numbers of tourists, he continued, relatively good because a number of countries in Asia actually declined as the number of tourists visiting Japan.

An increasing number of tourists visit the highest in Asia occurred in Korea reached 16 per cent followed by Australia's tourist traffic has increased more than 10 percent.

"If Malaysia is only 2.4 percent but still higher than the increase of tourists to visit Indonesia," he said.

According to Seven, an increasing number of tourist visit to Indonesia if only for 1.56 per cent between January and August 2009 had brought a positive impact on the economy of Indonesia.

If the number of visits of tourists continues to increase and reach the target 6.5 million people VIY the estimated state revenue from the tourism sector could reach Rp75 trillion, including those entered into the region of NTB.