Indonesia is an archipelago
consisting of thousand of islands. Many exotic islands made this country a
tourist paradise of the word. Therefore marine tourism was a highly prospective
business as nagnet to tourist to be develop by the Government.
Growing foreign tourist of the world coming to Indonesia
was highly business potential to be developed, in would generate positive
impact on hotel and restaurant business, travel agents and transportation
service on land, sea and air.
To the Government, tourism was “invisible export” which
would increase forex reserve. Tourist come to spend their money in Indonesia,
for accommodation, meal, transportation, recreation and shopping which energized
the market.
The Minister of Tourism Arif Yahya stated in Jakarta on
Tuesday [9/12] the trend among tourist to go on marine tourism kept on growing.
The increase was posted in premium tourist destinations in Indonesia. Some
tourist destinations in Indonesia posted significant increase in the past three
years. The number of visitors to Komodo Park increase by 9.42% on 2013 against
42,833 in 2011 and 45,776 in 2013.
Furthermore he disclosed that the number of foreign
tourist to Raja Ampat island in West Papua increased by 56.48% in 2012 against
3,858 in 2010 and to become 6,037 in 2012. The same was posted in Wakatobi,
increasing by 45.77% from 2,274 in 2011 to 3,315 in 2013. The number of tourist
to Sabang increased by 17.5% from 3,932 in 2010 to 4,622 in 2013.
Arif disclosed that the potential of marine tourism in
Indonesia was enormously high. With 80,000 km of coastline and 50.875 sq km of
coral reefs or 18% total oiral reefs of the world Indonesia was magnet to
foreign tourist of the world. Marine tourism in Indonesia was targeted to drum
up 20 million visitors till 2019.
Minister Arif disclosed that development of marine
tourism would be focused on development of diving and snorkeling, surfing, wind
surfing, cruising, waterskiing with emphasis on environmental conservation.
Development of marine tourism was in line with the Government’s commitment to
develop sea toll ways in Indonesia.
RIPPARNAS had designted National Tourism Strategic zone
[KSPN] based on marine, so inter-sectoral collaboration at central and
provincial level would be the underlying strategy of development. Indonesia
would be the heart of the world’s coral triangle consisting of the Indonesia,
Malaysia, Timor Leste. The Philippines, Papua New Guinea and Solomon islands
Marine tourism was closely related to development of
coastal areas encompassing development of hotels, restaurant of infra structure
like marina, harbor, business center etc, It was also necessary to build beach
fun, fun boats, mangrove tourism, finishing etc. (SS)
Business News - December 12, 2015
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