How Many Tourists Come To Yogya During Eid Holidays?

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JAKARTA - The Yogyakarta City Tourism Office noted that around 80 thousand tourists visited the city of Yogyakarta, especially to the three main tourist attractions during the 2022 Eid holiday, April 29-8 May.

"This number is just a rough calculation based on visits to three tourist attractions in Yogyakarta. This count does not include data on visits to Malioboro or tourists who come for culinary tours in Yogyakarta," said Head of the Yogyakarta City Tourism Office Wahyu Hendratmoko in Yogyakarta, Monday 9 May.

The three tourist objects that are the basis for calculating the number of tourist visits are the Yogyakarta Palace, Smart Park, and GL Zoo.

According to him, the number of tourists 80,000 who visited during the Lebaran holiday was in accordance with initial predictions because the three tourist objects must also meet the provisions of limiting the number of visits to a maximum of 75 percent according to applicable regulations.

Wahyu said that prior to the Eid holiday, he had coordinated with the three tourist attraction managers and asked the three of them to comply with health protocols and limit the number of visits according to applicable regulations.

"We cannot compare this year's visit with the 2019 visit because at that time going home was not a trip that had to be allowed by the central government, so there was no special calculation of tourist visits during the Idul Fitri holiday," he said as quoted by Antara.

Meanwhile, the target of tourist visits in the city of Yogyakarta in 2022 has been achieved in April. Yogyakarta targets 1.2 million tourist visits this year.

"This amount has been fulfilled in April. This proves that the tourism sector shows a good recovery trend. It's just a matter of maintaining performance and consistency," he said.

During April, the average amount of money spent by each tourist in the city of Yogyakarta reached Rp. 900,000 to Rp. 1 million. "For the Lebaran holiday or conditions in May, we can only calculate it in early June," he said.

He also hopes that all tourism service businesses in the city of Yogyakarta will consistently apply health protocols so that COVID-19 cases remain under control and the tourism industry continues to run well.

"During the Eid holiday, we randomly checked the implementation of health protocols at tourist attractions. Everything went well because each destination already had a COVID-19 task force," he said.