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Have a nice stay – Chinese tourists arrive at Ngurah Rai International Airport. (Kompas/-)
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he Central Statistics Agency (BPS) reported that 161,824 Chinese tourists visited Indonesia in February, up 12.5 percent year-on-year. The increase has come about due to more direct flights connecting the two countries.
“Garuda Indonesia has opened a direct flight from Denpasar, Bali, to Shanghai, China. This has helped boost the number of Chinese tourists visiting Indonesia,” BPS chairman Suryamin said in a press conference at the agency’s headquarters in Jakarta on Friday.
According to the BPS, Singapore ranked second of the countries with the highest number of tourists visiting Indonesia in February. The agency recorded 110,261 tourists from Singapore visited Indonesia in February, up by 13.15 percent from the same period of last year. Malaysia ranked third with 98,331 tourists, followed by 75,331 tourists from Australia and 42,186 tourists from Japan.
The BPS recorded that 888,309 foreigners arrived in Indonesia in February. Of these, 25,129 came for temporary business purposes. This figure shows a 9.09 percent increase month-on-month.
In the first two months of 2016, 710,687 foreigners arrived at Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali, up 14.29 percent from the same period of last year. Meanwhile, 317,820 foreigners arrived at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, a 5.55 percent decline from the same period of last year.
“This is important progress because foreign tourists boost the economic situation in the country. Tourism has a multiplier effect,” Suryamin said. (vps/ebf)
