Saturday, May 26, 2018
Tourism Indonesia is eyeing on French market to increase tourism.
Noe France is a major tourism market in Europe. It helps to further boost foreign tourist arrivals in Indonesia through collaboration with French travel organizers.
The Deputy Tourism Minister Nia Niscaya, who supervises marketing development in Europe, said collaboration with local French travel agents and organizers was a planned move to increase the number of French tourists.
The progressing contacts with five prominent French travel agencies and organizers resulted in the commitment of those agencies and organizers to survey places and accommodations in Bali from July to August and bring significant number of French tourists to the renowned Indonesian resort island from September to November, she said.
Nia said that there are 23.5 million French people travel abroad each year. It is now very interesting and good market profile.
Most of those travel agencies and organizers called for direct flights from France to Indonesia to ensure increasing visits of French tourists to Indonesia.
She said French travellers contributed significantly to global tourism spending as the country was ranked fifth with 40 billion U.S. dollars in 2016.
Together with Germany and Britain, France became a major propeller of Europe tourism spending in the year, which accounted for 48 percent of the global tourism market.
Indonesian Tourism Minister Arief Yahya supported the ministry’s efforts to tap the French market by intensifying the collaboration with French travel agencies and organizers.
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