Number of Foreign Tourists in Indonesia Maintains Growth Momentum

Minister Mari Elka Pangestu said that Indonesia’s tourism sector has bright prospects. In the G-20 group of largest economies, Indonesia constitutes the country that shows the highest growth pace in foreign tourist arrivals amid an improvement in the global tourism industry in 2014. This year global tourists are estimated to grow between 4.0 and 4.5 percent.

According to the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC), Indonesia may record a 14.2 percentage point growth in foreign visitor arrivals and a 6.3 percentage point growth in domestic tourists in 2014.

The number of foreign tourists that visited Bali in the first six months of this year (January-June 2014) rose 15.75 percent to 1.72 million from the same period last year. Most of these 1.72 million tourists were from Australia (25.8 percent), followed by China (15.3 percent), Malaysia (6.3 percent) and Japan (5.4 percent). The local government of Bali targets to welcome a total of three million foreign tourists on the island in 2014. Traditionally, Bali is the most popular tourist destination in Indonesia as the island offers beautiful scenery (rice fields, mountains and beaches), culture (related to Balinese Hinduism) and lively nightlife.

Foreign Tourist Arrivals in Indonesia - 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	726,332
May	700,708	752,363
June	789,594	789,594
July	717,784
August	771,009
September	770,878
October	719,900
November	807,422
December	766,966
Total	8,802,129	4,551,522

Foreign Tourists Arrivals in Indonesia - 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	9.50

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

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