THE NUMBER OF FOREIGN TOURIST VISITS INCREASED 110.86% COMPARED TO 2023

THE number of foreign tourist visits to Indonesia increased by 110.86% for the period January to November 2023 compared to last year.

According to the Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy, Sandiaga Uno, in his presentation at “The Weekly Press Briefing”, Wednesday (01/03), 2024, revealed that based on the Central Statistics Agency report, the number of foreign tourist visits in November 2023 was 917.41 thousand.

“The visits of foreign tourists this (November) complete the total visits from January to November 2023 of 10.41 million or an increase of 110.86% compared to the same period last year,” said Sandiaga.

He explained that this value is equivalent to 173.49% of the lower limit target or 122.46% of the upper limit target for foreign tourist visits in 2023.

“The dominance of foreign tourist visits for November 2023 came from Malaysia, Singapore and Australia. Meanwhile, for domestic tourists in November 2023 the number of foreign tourist movements reached 60.33 million trips or an increase of 12.02% compared to the same month last year,” he said.

Provinces on the island of Java still dominate foreign tourists’ travel, both based on origin and destination provinces. As many as 74.25% of foreign tourists travel from Java. In November 2023, West Java was recorded as the province of origin with the highest number of foreign tourists traveling, while the main destination province for foreign tourists was recorded as East Java. Cumulatively, the number of foreign tourists’ trips from January to November 2023 reached 749.11 million trips.

“So, if you look at it cumulatively, the number of foreign tourist movements has reached almost 750 million trips or an increase of 15% compared to the same period in 2019. So we are already above the base before the pandemic,” Sandiaga remarked.

Minister Sandiaga then invited all tourism and creative economy stakeholders to continue together to encourage economic movement and open job opportunities by prioritizing quality and sustainable tourism as a common goal. [traveltext.id]