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This evidence is worth visiting Indonesia , Amount foreign tourist arrivals up 8.9 %

The number of tourist arrivals (tourists) to Indonesia in April 2012 reached 626 100 foreign tourists, up 2.96% compared to April 2011 amounting to 608 093 foreign tourists. While the cumulative number of foreign tourists visiting the period January-April 2012 total of 2,529,896 foreign tourists or to grow 8.9% over the same period in 2011 of 2,323,039 foreign tourists.

"In the midst of global economic uncertainty, the development of foreign tourists coming to Indonesia until April 2012 that grew 8.9% compared to last year is still encouraging. Moreover, the increase is still higher than the growth of the tourist world in numbers ranging from 5%, "commented Minister of Tourism and the Creative Economy, Mari Elka Pangestu.

He added of the meeting of Tourism Ministers of the G20 countries (T20) and the meeting of the World Economic Forum East Asia (WEFEA), Bangkok recently, tourism is considered important as the answers that can contribute to economic growth and job creation. The United States have recently announced the U.S.

National Strategy for Tourism in the calculation that for every 1 of tourists who come, there were 35 jobs created. So we must continue to work according to the National Tourism Master Plan, to reduce the obstacles faced by the tourism sector so as to optimize its potential. Obviously the main goal is not only the number of foreign tourists but also improving the quality, the longer the duration of stay, higher spending and achieve sustainable tourism.

Data and Information Centre (Pusdatin) Kemenparekraf in a report Friday (1/5) mentions the visit of foreign tourists in April 2012 (by nationality) who experienced a high growth of 164.29% are Bahrain, Egypt (68.32%), RTT ( 28.92%), Thailand (14.60%) and the United Arab Emirates (13.38%).

While the high growth in cumulative January-April 2012 occurred in tourists from the PRC by 42.57%, Bahrain (39.29%), Egypt (35.20%), Saudi Arabia (21.49%) and Thailand and Hong Kong respectively amounted to 12.17%.
Media Centre is also noted from the 19 main door, through the entrance Husein Sastranegara Airport, Bandung West Java experienced high growth reached 24.62%. In January-April 2012 reached 46 007 foreign tourists, while at the same period as many as 36 919 tourists.
The high growth of foreign tourists to Bandung, West Java, is related to the promotion and improvement of air connectivity, especially from nearby markets such as Malaysia and Singapore.

Kemenparekraf remain optimistic that the visit of foreign tourists in 2012 sebesr 8 million tourists, or growth of around 4% -5% of foreign tourists visiting realisai in 2011 and by 7.6 million foreign tourists can be achieved. (Puskompublik)