Indonesia: The Second Best Destinations in Asia

Posted on May 1st, 2009 by admin, under Asia Travel, Transportation, Travel Tips.

Indonesia has been on site two in the best GoAsia destination in Asia, Thailand and Malaysia, was considered the third best, The Jakarta Post, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Indonesia on Friday with words.

Go Asia, a German tourism, travel agencies around the world invited to vote Wednesday in Berlin. The body also award prizes for the best in Asia and tourism organizations tourism offices, airlines and tour operators.

Go Asia Initiative was created in 2003 to improve marketing in the German-speaking countries. Sapta Nirwandar, Culture and Tourism of Indonesia, Director General of the Ministry of marketing, said Friday that the award was evidence that tourism, which, with $ 7.5 billion for the country, income in 2008 , was the situation in order to survive in the global economy slowdown.

“We must work hard to economic slowdown as an opportunity to increase our tourism,” he said. Sapta said that the number of German tourists in Indonesia was 22.6percent in 2008 from a year earlier.