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ELEVEN EMBASSIES ACTIVELY PROMOTING RI'S TOURISM
Padang, W Sumatra, June 6 (ANTARA) - Eleven Indonesian embassies overseas are actively promoting Indonesia's tourism through their diplomats and Indonesian citizens domiciled in foreign countries, a senior tourism official said.
Diplomats in the eleven embassies were playing extraordinary roles by launching the Indonesian tourism promotions, Nia Nurchaya, director for convention, incentive and promotion affairs at the Tourism and Culture Ministry, said here on Saturday.
She said the eleven Indonesian embassies were those in Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, Japan, South Korea, China, India, Britain, The Netherlands, Germany and Saudi Arabia.
Among the efforts they made included approaches to tourism operators in the countries concerned and distribution of brochures on Indonesian tourism to the tourism agents.
They also kept informing the need of foreign tourists and providing inputs on fun trips that would be organized so that foreign tourists would better and closely understand Indonesia.
"The Indonesian embassies provided funds for the organization of the tourism fun trips. They also disclosed agencies and media organizations which could provide positive impact on Indonesian tourism," she said.
The number of foreign tourists who visited Indonesia during the first quarter of this year reached 1,893,155, she said here over the weekend.
"Most of the foreign tourists who arrived in the country in the first quarter of this year came from Australia, Malaysia and China," Nia Nurcaya, director for tourism convention, incentive and promotion affairs of the directorate general for tourism and culture, said.
She said that the number of foreign tourist arrivals in the first quarter of 2009 increased 1.53 percent if compared to those arriving in the same period a year earlier.
The increase in the tourist visits in the first quarter is significant encouraging as it happens at a time when the country is facing the impact of global economic crisis.
Nia said that the international tourist flows in other countries in the first quarter of 2009 were declining.
That's why the increase in the country's foreign tourist arrivals display a positive indications to the tourist development.***2***
Diplomats in the eleven embassies were playing extraordinary roles by launching the Indonesian tourism promotions, Nia Nurchaya, director for convention, incentive and promotion affairs at the Tourism and Culture Ministry, said here on Saturday.
She said the eleven Indonesian embassies were those in Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, Japan, South Korea, China, India, Britain, The Netherlands, Germany and Saudi Arabia.
Among the efforts they made included approaches to tourism operators in the countries concerned and distribution of brochures on Indonesian tourism to the tourism agents.
They also kept informing the need of foreign tourists and providing inputs on fun trips that would be organized so that foreign tourists would better and closely understand Indonesia.
"The Indonesian embassies provided funds for the organization of the tourism fun trips. They also disclosed agencies and media organizations which could provide positive impact on Indonesian tourism," she said.
The number of foreign tourists who visited Indonesia during the first quarter of this year reached 1,893,155, she said here over the weekend.
"Most of the foreign tourists who arrived in the country in the first quarter of this year came from Australia, Malaysia and China," Nia Nurcaya, director for tourism convention, incentive and promotion affairs of the directorate general for tourism and culture, said.
She said that the number of foreign tourist arrivals in the first quarter of 2009 increased 1.53 percent if compared to those arriving in the same period a year earlier.
The increase in the tourist visits in the first quarter is significant encouraging as it happens at a time when the country is facing the impact of global economic crisis.
Nia said that the international tourist flows in other countries in the first quarter of 2009 were declining.
That's why the increase in the country's foreign tourist arrivals display a positive indications to the tourist development.***2***
