Development of tourism sector in the future is still faced with three major challenges, namely the change of attitude and the desire of tourists in the face of global crisis, increasing imaging Indonesia as a safe tourism destination, and the availability of capacity and quality of tourism products.
“The global crisis led to the re-orientation of lines of tourists travel long-distance (long haul) to the medium and short range (medium and short haul trip), a decreased level of spending and length of stay and number of trips of tourists who travel abroad because they prefer travel within the country, “said Wardiyatmo, Secretary General Depbudpar, after opening” Workshop on Improving Understanding of Culture and Tourism Division of Journalists and the Press “hosted by the Center for Information and Public Relations (Pusformas) Depbudpar in Building Seven Charm Jakarta, Friday (23/10).
According Wardiyatmo, the emergence of safety and health problems (epidemics) can affect the image of Indonesia as a safe destination and comfortable. “Each incident requires a recovery program takes a great resource and a long time, because a repeat of incidents from time to time will be the image (image) is not good,” he said.
In addition the availability of direct flights by national carrier of the major markets and potential, said Wardiyatmo, also a challenge that must be overcome. “Formulation of domestic tour packages are still weak, the availability of public infrastructure is limited, and some tourism destination has passed the peak needs to be revitalized, also a challenge,” said Wardiyatmo.
Year 2010 Depbudpar with tourism stakeholders have agreed to raise the target of foreign tourists visiting (tourists) from 6.5 million this year, to 7 million foreign tourists. The increase is among other targets after considering the condition of the achievements this year 6.5 million foreign tourists or to grow about 1% -2% from the year 2008 for 6.4 million tourists with foreign exchange gain of U.S. $ 7.3 billion.
