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Tourism Ministry holds sales mission event in China
Data from Central Statistics Agency (BPS) shows that in 2015, the number of Chinese tourists was the third highest with 1,141,330 people, or equal to 11 percent of the total number of international tourists.
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Chinese tourists standing in front of a souvenir street stall in Bali. (thejakartapost.com/Raditya Margi)
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n an effort to attract more Chinese tourists to come to Indonesia, Tourism Ministry hosted a promotional event called Mainland China Sales Mission 2017 in Nanning City on Nov. 22.
“The number of travelers from China is up to 120 million, but only 1.4 million (less than two percent) travel to Indonesia. The event is to promote year-end holidays,” said Tourism Ministry's deputy assistant for Asia-Pacific Tourism Promotion, Vinsensius Jemadu.
The event was joined by 12 sellers from Bali, Batam and West Java and attended by 125 buyers as well as deputy director Nanning Municipal tourism development commission Lin Hui Chao.
It opened with a performance of Setabik Dance by a dance group from South Sumatra, and then followed by a welcome speech, presentation about Palembang as the host of 2018 Asian Games and presentation about Cross-Border Batam Bintan.
Data from Central Statistics Agency (BPS) shows that in 2015, the number of Chinese tourists was the third highest with 1,141,330 people, or equal to 11 percent of the total number of international tourists.
In 2016, China took the second position with 1,452,971 people, or equal to 11 percent of the total number of overseas tourists.
For this year, up until the month of September, there were 1,606,615 Chinese tourists who came to Indonesia, up by 45.68 percent from the same period last year that welcomed 1,103,503 people. (asw)
