Hasil Pencarian  ::  Simpan CSV :: Kembali

"Through the year 2006, there are many national happenings influence the progress of the national development. During this year, there were many street demonstrations and excessive actions performed by local community. It has influenced the process of recovery of tourism development in Indonesia. The Statistical Report of Visitor Arrivals to Indonesia published by Ministry of Culture and Tourism showed the total of foreign visitor arrival to Indonesia decreased significantly in 2006. In the other hand, the flow of Indonesian national travelling overseas has increased significantly. Based on the above matters, it is considered necessary to re-evaluate and formulate a better strategy to improve Indonesian image overseas. Corrective actions should be taken to develop good image through tourism promotional activities. The policy on budget allocation for promotional activities has to be re-evaluated, as Malaysia and Singapore have much more promotional budget. Innovative creation and ideas should be developed to meet the wants and the needs of tourists. Tourist destination should be developed in such a way related to local-based sustainable tourism. This efforts is expected to assure foreign visitor to Indonesia that Indonesia is in a fact a ideal place for visitation. The decision to set 2008 as the Visit Indonesia year should be set as a big momentum to improve Indonesia image to foreign tourists."

"Tourism is highly suspectible to external disturbances, because of the nature of tourism itself, which is image-dependent, non-dependent, non-compulsory travel, and predominantly leisure-seeking activites. Natural disasters as well as human-made tragedies often shake tourism development, as seen in the case of earthquake in Yogyakarta, tsunami in Aceh, Thailand and India, or bombing in Luxor (Egypt), Thailand, and Bali. After the tragedy, stakeholders of tourism in beach destination tried hard to recover the industry in various ways. In the process of recovery, questions arise, such as whether at a given time the tourism has or has not been recovered. Contradicting views often occur, with the difference indicators used in judging the 'recovery' state such as the number of international arrival, room occupancy rate, the effect of tourism on the general economy, etc, and in most cases only a single factor is considered. This paper is concerned with such an issue, by taking Bali as a case study. It is concluded that various indicators must be used in combination, to have a comprehensive judgement of the recovery state. This is more so because, in most cases, the tragedy is not the only factor causing the decrease of one indicator, say, room occupancy rate. The oversupply situation is yet another factor that needs to be seriously taken into account."