Chinese Tourism

June 23rd, 2008, in Business & Economy, Travel, by Patung

Chinese TouristIndonesia’s target of 300,000 Chinese tourists is regarded as too low.

Deputy head of Indonesia’s China Mission, Mohamad Oemar, says the country’s target of garnering 300,000 Chinese visitors for 2008, Visit Indonesia Year, is much too small considering China has a population of over one billion.

The target of 300,000 is too low, we could have many more visitors from China than that.

Indonesia had a 600 year old relationship with China, he said, and had plenty of appealing destinations, so there was no reason it should be beaten by other countries in attracting Chinese tourism.

Oemar said that in an effort to gain more Chinese tourists an “Indonesia Week” display/exhibition will be held in Wangfujing, a big shopping mall in Beijing, in September 2008, around the time of the Olympics. [1]

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5 Comments on “Chinese Tourism”

  1. sputjam Says:
    June 23rd, 2008 at 8:51 pm

    “welcome to my parlour”, said the spider to the fly.
    On a more serious note, there should be direct flights between various cities in china to hot destination spots such as Manado, Lombok and Bali. I know that chinese love sea food. But its got to be cooked their style. Otherwise, they will go home complaining about the lack of good food in indonesia.
    Nearest hot spot to china will be Manado. I think it should be about 3 plus hours away from Guangzhou/shenzhen/Hong Kong/Macau. A perfect weekend getaway for those with means.
    Currently, Kota Kinabalu in sabah/Malaysia is a tourist boom town due to numerous direct flights to Korea/Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macao/shenzhen/bangkok/singapore. It has crystal clear water, scuba/snorkling, mountain climbing, white water rafting, jungle trekking, orang utan watching and reasonably fresh sea food served chinese style. The things that makes kota kinabalu attractive is available in all the mentioned tourist spots in indonesia except the availability of chinese style sea food.

  2. may1998 Says:
    June 24th, 2008 at 7:18 am

    But indons just killed, looted, raped, burn Chinese in May 1998?

  3. Farah Says:
    June 24th, 2008 at 2:16 pm

    @ may1998

    But indons just killed, looted, raped, burn Chinese in May 1998?

    Its all wrong. I mean what those FEW people do is all wrong. But please don’t use the word INDONS cause i don’t feel ever do anything that you said on your comments.

  4. sputjam Says:
    June 25th, 2008 at 6:26 pm

    Malaysia gave visa on arrival to chinese and the next thing you know, they are everywhere, especially the massage parlours, karaoke joints and pubs.
    Even coffeeshops have backrooms.

  5. oemar Says:
    July 11th, 2008 at 9:03 pm

    Appreciative of all comments, pls note also that what was referred to about 1998 was a regrettable incident which occured amdist a nation-wide political-economic-social turmoil. It should in no way be seen as ethnic-targeted violence. Look at the situation post 1998 up to now. Through many revolutionary legislative changes, Chinese Indonesians are enjoying fully equal rights as native Indonesian citizens. Many of them are now members of Parliament, national commissions and cabinet minister. After all, there must be a lot more reasons why the rest of more than 12 millions Chinese Indonesians have chosen to stay inthe country after 1998.

    Let’s move forward to better future and not turn back the clock. Warm rgds.

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