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The Indonesian Embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark, participated in the Danish Travel Show 2017 in Herning city, Denmark, from Feb 24 to 26, 2017. A statement from the Indonesian Embassy in Copenhagen received by Antara here on Monday stated that Indonesia’s…
According to the Airports of Thailand (AOT) the country’s aviation industry performance only improved ‘slightly’ between October-December 2016 (Q1 FY2017), due to a reduced number of Chinese tourists visiting through ‘illegal tours’. During the period,…
Tourism spending was a silver lining for the struggling retail industry last year. Tourists spent $4.3 billion on shopping between January and September. That is nearly 50 per cent more than in the same period in 2015, according to figures released yesterday…
The district administration of Raja Ampat in West Papua Province will organize various festivals to lure tourists to the island. The planned festivals will be part of the tourism campaign for the region, according to the Head of Raja Ampat tourism office,…
Bali is expected to attract 40 percent of the total target of 15 million foreign tourists to Indonesia in 2017. The province has been given a bigger portion than other regions because it still remains the prime destination for foreign tourists, according to…
The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) says a new record was broken at the end of December when it received its 32-millionth visitor. The red carpet was laid out to welcome the fortunate arrival as part of ’Thailand’s Luckiest Visitor’ campaign which was…
The number of visits by Chinese tourists to Bali rose 41.28 percent to 907,028 in the first 11 months of 2016 from 642,000 in the same period in 2015. “Most of them flew directly to Bali via the Denpasar International Airport of Ngurah Rai with only 886 of…
Indonesia is seeking to lure more European tourists to visit the country by promoting its national tourism industry in the Matka-Nordic Travel Fair 2017 that will be held from January 19-22 in Messukeskus, Helsinki, Finland. “Indonesia has set the target of…
More than 4.48 million foreign tourists visited Bali via the resort islands Ngurah Rai Airport from January to November 2016, up 23.52 percent from 3.63 million in the same period last year. Some 4.48 million tourists traveled to Bali by air, and 70,449…
The tourist resort province of Bali, which had received 4.07 million foreign tourist arrivals up to October, is expected to have attracted more than 4.4 million more tourists by the end of the year. “Foreign tourist arrivals account for 40 percent of the…
Mr. Yuthasak Supasorn, Governor of the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) said, “This has been an amazing year for tourism in amazing Thailand as shown by the huge numbers of visitors. We have reached 30 million and the high season has only just kicked off.…
President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has called for a serious effort to attract at least 10 million Chinese tourists to visit Indonesia per year. “Some 150 million Chinese citizens travel abroad every year. Most of them travel to the US and Europe. I want some 10…
Microsoft has extended its global CityNext smart city initiative to Hong Kong and is seeking local partners to collaborate. Through the CityNext initiative, Microsoft is working with partners including system integrators to deliver smart city offerings to…
The Indonesian Tourism Ministry and the China National Tourism Administration have agreed to check certain tourism operators who are unprofessional and harm tourists interests. “We are ready to blacklist such operators since tourism is a service-based…
International Business Group (IBG) of Tencent, a leading provider of Internet value added services in China, announced today the roll-out of one-stop service advertising solutions. The ad solutions include options to build brand awareness and develop product…
Indonesian Economic and Trade Office to Taipei (KDEI) is expecting more than 250 thousand tourist arrivals from Taiwan to Indonesia by the end of 2016. “In 2015, the number of Taiwanese tourists visiting Indonesia was 211 thousand. Hopefully, by the end of…
