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VOI News, Jakarta: Indonesian Minister of Tourism Widiyanti Putri Wardhana is optimistic that the achievement of the tourism sector in 2024 will exceed the performance of 2023. 

Minister Widiyanti in the “2024 Year-End Press Conference”, in Jakarta, Friday (20/12), pointed out that a number of performance indicators of the tourism sector has  shown positive growth throughout 2024, such as the contribution of tourism Gross Domestic Product in the first half of 2024 amounted to 4.01 percent. According to her, this figure exceeded the contribution last year.

“The contribution of tourism GDP in the first half of 2024 was 4.01%, this is more than, exceeding the realization of the previous year,” she conveyed.

Besides, Minister of Tourism Widiyanti further explained that based on data from the Central Statistics Agency, for domestic tourists, the number of movements in January to October 2024 reached 839.4 million trips, and already achieved the realization of the movement of  domestic tourists in 2023 of 839.7 million trips.

Meanwhile, for foreign tourist visits, until October 2024, the number of foreign tourists reached 11.6 million visits and is believed to continue to grow until December 2024.

Minister Widiyanti also revealed that foreign exchange earnings in the tourism sector until the third quarter of 2024 reached 12.63 billion US dollars. Meanwhile, the number of tourism workers from semester 1 was 24.5 million people. (VOI-Dora -Mar-AF-Rahmana)