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Indonesian Tourism Outlook 2018 discusses digital revolution, sustainable tourism
By going digital the tourism industry in Indonesia has increased up to 25.68 percent in 2017.
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Sustainable home: The main house of The Studio villa complex in Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara. (JP/Mark Heyward)
A meeting titled Indonesian Tourism Outlook 2018 was held on Nov. 11 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Jakarta.
The meeting was attended by Tourism Minister Arief Yahya, Indonesian economist Faisal Basri, World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) senior vice president Helen Marano and TripAdvisor head of destination marketing APAC Sarah Mathews, among others.
During his speech, Arief mentioned the three digital revolutions that are currently happening: Telecommunication, transportation and tourism.
“Sustainable tourism has become a concern among so many people in the world, we need to focus on this. The right way to do it here in Indonesia is through deregulation,” said Arief.
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Arief said that Indonesia still ranks low in environmental sustainability acceleration, thus he hoped to gain insights on how to resolve environmental sustainability problems from other countries through WTTC.
On the other hand, by going digital the tourism industry in Indonesia has increased up to 25.68 percent in 2017.
“We take a digital approach, using [only] the best in the world. It can be confirmed that tourism will be number one this year,” said Arief.
Meanwhile, Helen said that one of the important things in developing tourism is the support from the government, which should provide rooms for different departments to work and connect to each other.
“Sustainable tourism is gaining more attention, not only to reach the GDP [target] but also to maintain and improve tourism in both national and international scenes,” said Helen. (kes)
