Arief Yahya: Pertumbuhan Pariwisata Indonesia Lampaui Dunia
Indonesian Minister: Tourism Growth in Indonesia Exceeds Global Surge
Reporter : Gatot Priyantono
Editor : Cahyani Harzi
Translator : Dhelia Gani
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Jakarta (B2B) - Pertumbuhan pariwisata Indonesia pada 2014 mencapai 7,2%, jauh melampaui angka pertumbuhan pariwisata kawasan Asia Pasifik sebesar 5% bahkan melampaui angka pertumbuhan dunia yang hanya 4,7%.
"Melihat negara tetangga kita yang sudah mencapai kunjungan di atas 20 juta wisman, sementara potensi kita jauh lebih besar maka ini menjadi tantangan untuk mewujudkan tekad bahwa kita dapat melampaui mereka," kata Menteri Pariwisata (Menpar) Arief Yahya di Jakarta, Rabu.
Berdasarkan laporan UN-WTO jumlah wisman dunia pada 2014 sebanyak 1,136 miliar atau tumbuh 4,7%. Sementara itu jumlah kunjungan wisman ke Indonesia pada Januari hingga Desember 2014 menurut laporan BPS sebanyak 9,43 juta atau tumbuh sebesar 7,2 persen.
"Tren pertumbuhan pariwisata nasional dan dunia terus membaik, kita optimistis target 20 juta wisman pada 2019 bisa tercapai," katanya.
Untuk mewujudkan tekad tersebut, kata dia, berbagai upaya terus dilakukan terutama dalam memperbaiki dalam infrastruktur pariwisata. Selain itu infrastruktur ICT, kesehatan dan higienitas, aksesibilitas, dan regulasi.
"Perbaikan infrastruktur diharapkan sekaligus akan mendongkrak daya saing pariwisata di tataran global," katanya.
Saat ini daya saing Indonesia berada pada ranking 70 dan ditarget akan meningkat menjadi ranking 30 dunia.
Jakarta (B2B) - Tourism in Indonesia grew by 7.2 percent in 2014, well above the global tourism growth of 4.7 percent and the Asia-Pacific tourism growth of 5 percent.
"Even though we have greater potential in tourism, we can see that tourist arrivals in our neighboring countries reached 20 million. We feel challenged and determined to be ahead of them," Indonesian Tourism Minister Arief Yahya said here on Wednesday.
According to a UN-WTO report, the number of global tourists grew by 4.7 percent to 1.13 billion in 2014. More than 9.43 million tourists visited Indonesia last year, a 7.2 percent increase from that the previous year, data from the Indonesian Statistics Agency, known as BPS revealed.
More than 9.43 million tourists visited Indonesia last year, a 7.2 percent increase from that the previous year, data from BPS.
"With the upward trend of national and global tourism, we are optimistic that our target of 20 million tourist arrivals in the country in 2019 can be achieved," Yahya affirmed.
Towards that end, various efforts have been made, particularly to improve tourism infrastructure, besides information and communication technology (ICT), health facilities, hygiene, accessibility and regulations, the minister noted.
"Improvements in infrastructure will, hopefully, raise the competitiveness of our tourism sector at the global level," he remarked.
Indonesia now ranks 70th in terms of competitiveness, a rating that is expected to jump to the 30th position in the years to come.
