Foreign Tourist Arrivals to Indonesia Grow 10% in the First Quarter of 2014

The highest increase of foreign tourist arrivals (214.74 percent) was recorded in Lombok International Airport, followed by Adisucipto Airport in Yogyakarta (44.07 percent), and Makassar (26.09 percent).

Tourism in March 2014

Meanwhile, the number of foreign tourists visiting Indonesia in March 2014 amounted to 765.607, rising 5.55 percent from the same month in 2013. Compared to February 2014, foreign tourist arrivals grew 8.96 percent. Of the total amount of foreign tourists that visited Indonesia in March 2014, 18.10 percent originated from Singapore, followed by Malaysia (14.99 percent), Australia (10.63 percent), China (10.21 percent), and Japan (4.94 percent).

Indonesia's Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy targets to welcome 9.5 million foreign tourists in 2014 (23.2 percent of this target has been achieved in the first quarter of 2014).

Download Statistics Indonesia's March (and Q1-2014) tourism statistics here

Foreign Tourist Arrivals in 2013-2014:

Month	Tourist Arrivals          2013	Tourist Arrivals          2014
January	614,328	753,079
February	678,415	702,666
March	725,316	765,607
April	646,117
May	700,708
June	789,594
July	717,784
August	771,009
September	770,878
October	719,900
November	807,422
December	766,966
Total	8,802,129	2,221,352

Foreign Tourists Arrivals 2007-2014:

	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014¹
Foreign Tourists (in millions)	5.51	6.23	6.32	7.00	7.65	8.04	8.80	9.5

^{¹ indicates government target
Source: Statistics Indonesia (BPS)}

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