Indonesia’s tourism sector to focus on emerging markets
December 29th, 2011 - 5:31 pm ICT by IANSJakarta, Dec 29 (IANS) Indonesia’s tourism sector will focus on emerging markets in 2012 as they are relatively resistant to global financial crisis, a minister said here Thursday.
“In 2012, we target markets that are not (relatively) affected by crisis,” Minister for Tourism and Creative Economy Mari Elka Pangestu told a press conference.
However, she said, even though crisis hit European countries and the US, their nationals keep coming to Indonesia for holidays.
“They keep coming even though the figures are not too big,” said Pangestu.
She said that during 2011, tourists from Britain consist of 2.8 percent of total coming to Indonesia, the Netherlands 2.3 percent, Germany 1.5 percent and France 7.55 percent, reported Xinhua.
“We still can’t provide figures from the United States. But, I think, the figures are not big,” she said.
She said growth of Asian markets is stable in 2011.
“Singaporean tourists consists of 11.4 percent of total foreigners, Australia 22.9 percent, China 15.9 percent, India 14.8 percent and the Philippines 20.8 percent,” she said.
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