Indonesia will celebrate Chinese New Year in Bali with 1500 Chinese tourists

Saturday, January 27, 2018

Indonesia is going to celebrate the Chinese New Year in Bali with more than 1500 Chinese tourists this year.

The Assistant Deputy Minister for Asia Pacific Marketing Development in the ministry Vincensius Jemadu said that the confirmation on the upcoming visit of those Chinese tourists to Bali during the Chinese New Year in mid February was resulted from the recent Indonesia tourism minister’s visit to China.

Vincensius Jemadu also added that the eagerness of Chinese tourists to commemorate the Chinese New Year in Bali. It was also highly contributed to the Chinese Consulate-General in Bali which has actively recommended Bali as the place to celebrate the Chinese New Year this year.

He said that Bali is now making preparations for the Chinese New Year celebration, which was slated to commence on February 15, 2018.

The Chinese Consulate-General in Bali, the upcoming Chinese New Year celebration on the island would be featured by at least 20 performers from China plus several others from Indonesia.

Particularly to promote the Chinese New Year celebration in Bali, he said that the ministry has placed massive advertisements in various mainstream media as well as online media in China.

The ministry at Bali has also scheduled gatherings with representatives of Chinese travel agencies and media in China this month, among others in Beijing, Nanning and Guangzhou, to promote Indonesian tourism.

The Indonesian Tourism Minister Arief Yahya said that his ministry and the Chinese Consulate-General in Bali had also jointly held Chinese New Year celebrations in Bali last year.

The tourism minister said that the Chinese New Year holiday season is a great impetus to tap more Chinese tourists to visit Indonesia.

He added that China now has huge outbound tourist potentialities with more than 130 million tourists conducting outbound traveling each year.

The minister was scheduled to depart for China to meet officials from the China National Tourism Administration (CNTA) to reinforce the further bilateral communication in the tourism sector of Indonesia after his current visit to Thailand’s Chiang Mai to attend the ASEAN Tourism Forum.

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