Indonesia

On Sunday, March 9 2008, 2 touring railways were released in Monas in order to help visitors, especially the disabled persons, oldsters, kids, and anyone who need. The ceremony was held on 10 am and some government officials were coming, such as Head of Culture and Museum, Head of Transportation. Governor of DKI, Fauzi Bowo, said [...]

Recently, a biggest tourism exhibiton was held in US. This event is well known as The New York Times Travel Show 2008 that was located in New York (as the title of exhibition). This participation was necessary since Indonesia wants to introduce and to publish Visit Indonesia Year 2008 program. Number of visitor of this exhibition [...]

A member of DPR (house of representative), Joko Santoso, said the idea of Visit Indonesian Year 2008 is a big mistake since, he said, some tourists are known better the detail of destination tourists in Indonesia. He suggested, the motto is ’should’ like Visit Toba Year, Visit Musi Year, etc. Joko said some destinations in Indonesia [...]

An Indonesian Culture Exhibition was held in Geneva, Switzerland, couple days ago. Using “Balinese Dish: Delicious and Savoury” topic, this event was held by diplomat wives whom joined in United Nations Women`s Guild (UNWG). The target of this exhibition is to succeed Visit Indonesian Year 2008. Even the topic use Bali, there were Indonesian foods (from [...]

Good news for Indonesian tourism. On Dec 2007, the number of tourists is increasing about 10.29% compared with Dec 2006. The deputy of Badan Pusat Statistik (BPS), Ali Rosyidi, said this couple days ago. He also said, the number is also increasing about 7.86% compared Nov 2007. Minister of Culture and Tourism, Jero Wacik, hopes this [...]

Since European Commission ban about 51 Indonesian airline companies from flying to the European Union member countries as of July 6, 2007, less than a week some air travel operators in Indonesia began complaining this weekend over a blow to the tourism sector. The most complains are coming from Bali and Surabaya tourist agent because [...]

Emaar Properties, a company with about US$ 25 billion market value, will invest more than US$ 600 million in Lombok to build eco-friendly tourism infrastructure in Lombok. Lombok has been gaining popularity with tourists with its pristine beach, also to surfers. Emaar has not failed to spot this opportunity. Work is already underway to build the international [...]