The latest BPS report notes that inbound tourism until August had reached the highest level since 2020, while domestic tourism also saw a comparable increase over the first eight months of the year.
oreign tourist arrivals have reached the highest level since before the COVID-19 pandemic took its toll on the country’s tourism industry.
The number of foreign nationals traveling to the archipelago had increased every month since a slight decrease in March 2024 to 1.34 million in August, up 18.30 percent year-on-year (yoy), Statistics Indonesia (BPS) reported on Tuesday.
The January-August period saw 9.09 million foreign arrivals, or a 20.38 percent yoy increase, and the highest cumulative figure since 2020.
The continuing increase in foreign arrivals this year marked “the recovery of the tourism sector in Indonesia”, the BPS noted in its latest monthly report.
Cumulative data for the first eight months of 2024 is still 10 percent below the pre-pandemic level, which recorded more than 10 million foreign tourists in January-August 2019.
Malaysians accounted for the lion’s share of all foreign arrivals to date at 14.09 percent, followed by Australians at 11.47 percent and Chinese at 9.41 percent.
The majority of visitors entered the country in August via Ngurah Rai International Airport in Denpasar, Bali, and Soekarno Hatta International Airport in Tangerang, Banten, which accounted for 89.76 percent of foreign arrivals, or around 886,000 people.
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