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THE MINISTRY of Tourism and Creative Economy shares the latest data regarding the movement of foreign tourists and domestic tourists.
According to the Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy, Sandiaga Uno in ‘The Weekly Brief’ which took place on a hybrid basis, Monday (8/07), 2023, revealed data from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) showing the number of foreign tourist arrivals continues to increase. BPS data for June 2023 foreign tourist arrivals are very strong. Month to month from this increase in foreign countries is significant, year on year also increases significantly.
“Entering June 2023, foreign tourist arrivals reached 1.062 million visits and cumulatively foreign tourist visits from January to June 2023 reached 5,189,433 visits. This number has increased by 11.44% compared to month to month (May 2023) and year on year increased by 119.645 compared to June 2022,” he said.
He explained, the number of foreign tourist visits in the first semester of this year was equivalent to 88.12% of the total foreign tourist visits throughout 2022, an increase of 250.33% compared to semester I of 2022. Meanwhile, when compared to the target of foreign tourist visits in 2023, this value is equivalent to 86 .49% lower limit target (6 million) or 61.05% upper limit target (8.5 million)
Based on the country of origin of foreign tourists in June 2023, Singapore ranks first with a percentage of 16.41%, Malaysia with 15.88%, Australia with 12.47%, India with 6.48% and China with 5.88%.
“So once again we should be grateful for this number and we can provide a projection that this year if everything goes according to plan then the target of 8.5 million will be exceeded significantly. The projected figure is around 15 to 20%,” said Sandiaga.
Even though foreign tourist arrivals have increased, domestic tourist trips until June 2023 were recorded at only 433.57 million. Provinces on the island of Java still dominate the trips of domestic tourists, both based on the province of origin and destination.
The five destination provinces that contributed the largest number of domestic tourists’ trips were East Java 26.92%, West Java 17.40%, Central Java 14.55%, DKI Jakarta 6.94%, and Banten 4.80% of the target of 1.2-1 .4 billion moves.
“We want these domestic tourists to be the focus because we have the advantage of tourist villages and super priority destinations. We must direct this to quality and sustainable tourism programs that are supported by the movement of domestic tourists,” Sandiaga remarked.
The Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy will continue to carry out various programs including promotional collaborations with online travel agents as well as with Indonesia 360, namely collaboration with partners, influencers, industry players, the media, as well as travel agents.
“We encourage local governments to be more active in promoting and creating events and other activities for Indonesian tourism marketing which we do all out. We also encourage cooperation that is more integrated with the concept of being proud of traveling in Indonesia,” he concluded. [traveltext.id]
