indonesia attracted more than 9 million foreign tourists in first eight months
2024-10-01
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china news service, jakarta, october 1 (reporter li zhiquan) in the first eight months of this year, indonesia has attracted more than 9 million foreign tourists, but this number is still lower than the level before the new crown epidemic.
data released by the indonesian central bureau of statistics on october 1 showed that from january to august 2024, nearly 9.1 million foreign tourists visited indonesia, an increase of 20.38% compared with the same period in 2023. specifically, by august 2024, the number of foreign tourists visiting indonesia will be 1.3 million, a year-on-year increase of 18.3%. the tourists that month mainly came from malaysia, australia and china. the east java provincial bureau of statistics disclosed on the same day that tourists from china accounted for approximately 32% of the number of foreign tourists in the province in august.
amalia, head of the indonesian central bureau of statistics, said at a press conference that this is the highest number of foreign tourists recorded in indonesia from january to august since 2020. but she also admitted that the number was still lower than before the epidemic. during the same period in 2019, indonesia received 10.7 million foreign tourists.
however, from january to august this year, the number of domestic tourist trips in indonesia reached 674.6 million, an increase of 19.2% compared with the same period in 2019. the industry is optimistic about the recovery of indonesian tourism.
indonesia, the "land of thousand islands", has rich tourism resources. the country's goal is to attract 14.3 million foreign tourists this year. (over)
