Tourists Are Still 'lazy' To Travel, Sandiaga Is Encouraged To Move Domestic Tourists

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JAKARTA - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) estimates that the global tourism sector will not be able to recover next year. This is because many travelers refrain from traveling across countries.

"What's interesting here is that if we talk about the tourism sector, it seems that this sector will still not be able to recover in 2021," said ADB Vice President Bambang Susantono in an online seminar held by the Indonesian Transportation Society (MTI), quoted from Antara, Monday, December 28.

According to Bambang, the tourism sector has not yet recovered next year due to a survey conducted by IATA showing that more than 50 percent of those who travel internationally will not travel for six months to the next year.

This of course will affect the flow of aircraft and aviation passengers.

"It seems that tourists and domestic passengers should be encouraged to help the tourism sector during the COVID-19 period," he said.

He further explained that this has indeed happened in several countries and they are ultimately looking more looking inside rather than opening many cross-border border zones or travel bubbles.

Previously, the Regional Head of the Bali Tourism Awareness Community (Masata) DPD I Made Ramia Adnyana expected the Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy (Menparekraf) Sandiaga Uno to be able to move massive domestic tourists towards the three main gateways of tourism in the country.

The three main gates for tourism are Bali, Jakarta and Batam. In addition to the 10 super priority and priority destinations, with attractive economical packages supported by airlines and hotels collectively.

According to him, only by moving the domestic market, Indonesian tourism will be able to rise again before foreign tourists can travel to this country.