Foreign Tourist Arrivals in Indonesia up 14.50 Percent in February 2013
Foreign tourist arrivals in Indonesia went up 14.50 percent in February compared to the same month last year, according to data published by Statistics Indonesia (BPS). In absolute numbers, this translates to more than 678 thousand foreign tourists that visited Indonesia in February. As usual, most tourists entered Indonesia through Bali (Ngurah Rai airport) or Jakarta (Soekarno-Hatta airport). Together, these airports account for over 60 percent of total foreign arrivals.
The cumulative of January and February in 2013 rose 3.82 percent compared to the same period last year.
| January 2013 |
February 2013 |
Total 2013 (Jan-Feb) |
|
| Total Number of Foreign Tourists |
614,328 | 678,415 | 1,292,743 |
Source: Statistics Indonesia
The Indonesian government has set ambitious targets of welcoming a total of nine million foreign tourists in 2013, and ten million in 2014. The government expects these increases to originate mainly from the Asia- Pacific region itself. In December 2012, an official of the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy said that they selected 16 target markets for the country's tourist industry (including Singapore, China, Japan, and South Korea) where a number of events will be organized to attract tourists to Indonesia.
| 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | |
| Foreign Tourists (in millions) |
5.51 | 6.23 | 6.32 | 7.00 | 7.65 | 8.04 |
Source: Statistics Indonesia