Travel Entrepreneurs: Fast Trains Help Promote Jakarta City To ASEAN Communities

Illustration. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - The Indonesian Travel Agents Association (Astindo) said therapidese train helped promote the City of Jakarta and also Bandung to the people of ASEAN, so they wanted to visit Indonesia.

This is because the high-speed rail project is the first in Southeast Asia.

"The existence of thisASH is very helpful for us in Jakarta. Promoting Jakarta as a tourism destination, especially for ASEAN countries. Because this ASEAN country is only Jakarta, only Indonesia has a high-speed train," said Chairman of Astindo Pauline Suharno after the 2024 Astindo Travel Fair Opening event in Tangerang, Banten, quoted from Antara, Friday, March 1.

He said that his party received a lot of requests for visits to tour by train.

The increase in demand was dominated by students and corporations who wanted to try the first high-speed rail project in ASEAN, as well as visiting Jakarta and Bandung.

"So there are a lot of requests from students, a lot of requests from corporations throughout ASEAN for Jakarta tours to Bandung," he said.

According to him, in addition to attracting the ASEAN community to visit the two cities, theASH train also attracts the interest of the domestic community, to want to travel to the two cities on the island of Java.

"Improving people who want to travel to Bandung, want to try," he said.

Previously, the Director of Marketing for Tourism of the Archipelago of the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy, Dwi Marhen Yono, said that the potential for money circulation in the tourism and creative economy sector if the target of domestic tourists in 2024 is met will reach more than IDR 2,000 trillion.

This figure is obtained through the assumption that the target of domestic tourists is 1.25 billion, with each individual spending Rp. 2 million to fulfill hotel accommodation, transportation, tour packages, and food.

"If the 1 billion tourists each spend 2 million to buy food, to stay, for transportation, buy tour packages, there will be Rp. 2,000 trillion in money circulating in the tourism sector and the creative economy. That is our normal target," he said.