JAKARTA (Vietnam News/ANN): The number of foreign visitors to Indonesia exceeded 10 million as of September, inching closer to the full-year target of 14 million, according to the South-East Asian country's Central Statistics Agency.
It reported that from January to September, international arrivals rose by 20.28% year-on-year, totaling 10.37 million. However, the figure remains below pre-pandemic levels. By the same period in 2019, the country had recorded over 12 million foreign tourist arrivals.
In September alone, Indonesia welcomed 1.28 million foreign tourists, a year-on-year rise of 19.53% but a 4.5% decrease from August.
Neighboring countries Malaysia, Australia, China, and Singapore remain among the largest contributors to Indonesia’s international visitor numbers.
The average spending per foreign tourist was recorded at US$1,375 per visit.
The agency's Acting Head Amalia Adininggar Widyasanti said that this amount is lower than the previous quarter’s average foreign tourist spending of US$1,443.
In addition to foreign arrivals, domestic tourism has seen a surge, with 757.96 million trips by local tourists in the nine months leading up to September, marking a 21% increase from the same period last year.
The hotel occupancy rate for January through September averaged 51.33%, reflecting a significant recovery in the tourism sector from the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. - Vietnam News/ANN
