JAKARTA - Adyatama Tourism and Creative Economy Expert, Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy, Vinsensius Jemandu, assessed that sports tourism or sport tourism is effective for tourism promotion and mobilizing the local economy.
According to him, sport tourism can collect a lot of people with relatively cheap costs, but it has an impact on the surrounding community.
"Because what? The MSMEs will live. And the movement of the archipelago tourists from the districts, provinces around also go there. So it is very effective for tourism promotion and mobilizing the local economy," said Vinsensius, when met by the media after the Senior Happy Run 5K 2026 event in Jakarta, Sunday, as reported by Antara.
Vinsensius said the Ministry of Tourism hoped that in all Indonesian tourism destinations there would be wellness or fitness activities in addition to sports tourism.
He also highlighted the trend of wellness tourism and fitness tourism since the COVID-19 pandemic has increased significantly and the direction seems to have become a lifestyle and is a high-quality product for tourism.
There are three portfolios of tourist products, continued Vinsensius, namely culture (culture), nature (nature), and man-made. As for the sports tourism, it is included in the man-made product that has experienced an increase.
"In the past, we saw that (tourist products) cultureini contributed 60 percent to foreign tourists, nature around 30 percent, man-made 10 percent. Now it's reversed that man-made is like wellness, running, hyrox and all sports related to tourism has increased to 20 percent," said Vinsensius.
According to him, this is a very good shift, because it is related to spending and foreign exchange for foreign countries.
Meanwhile, continued Vinsensius, in the country, the activity of sports tourism is considered almost all in various provinces and this shows that people in Indonesia are increasingly aware of the importance of health.
"Even at the level of the younger generation, if in the past young people spent a lot of time in cafes, but now it turns out that it is different if there is an event, they all go to run and this is a very positive trend for the development of sports tourism in Indonesia," he said.
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