Good News From Sandiaga Uno! The 2022 Tourism Visit Has Surpassed The Target

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JAKARTA - Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy Sandiaga Uno said tourist visits, both for domestic tourists and foreign tourists in 2022, had exceeded the target. For this year, from the target of 3.6 million foreign tourists in the next one, two weeks, it seems that it will penetrate 5.3 million people. "Then from domestic tourists from the target of 660 million, there is a chance that it will be at 800 million, meaning this increase is above 40 percent of the target that has been announced," said Sandiaga Uno after the opening of Pabbajja Samamnera in Borobudur, quoted from an electronic message received in Jakarta, Sunday, December 18. Meanwhile, the number of visits next year is targeted to increase to 7.4 million foreign tourists. Some are expected from religious tourism. Then the target of domestic tourists rose to 1.4 billion domestic tourist movements. "This can be achieved if you focus on two forces, namely nature and culture. In addition, tourists are interested in ecotourism, spiritual tourism, religious tourism," said Sandiaga Uno. According to him, this was done by means of an inclusion approach to mobilizing micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and also involving community-based tourism such as tourist villages. "We are sure that despite the threat of a global recession, Indonesia will grow 5 percent next year and 5 percent again in 2024 so that the target of job creation of 4.4 million can be achieved," said Sandiaga Uno. Furthermore, Sandiaga Uno hopes that the Pabbajja Samamnera event in the Borobudur Temple area will become part of religious tourism that revives super priority destinations that have been set by the President to increase foreign and archipelago tourist visits. He said, if this year Pabbajja Samanera's activities were attended by 500 participants, next year it was hoped that 1,000 participants could participate.