Tourism Arrivals and Hotel Occupancies Increase Nation Wide Through the End of July 2008.
Bisnis.com reports that the National Bureau of Statistics (BPS) recorded 3.47 million visitors for the period January-July 2008, an increase of 11.43% over the 3.11 million tallied in the same period in 2007.
The Head of the BPS, Rusman Heriawan, said arrivals for July 2008 hit 567,400. This represents a 7.24% increase over the 514,600 who visited Indonesia in July 2007.
Nationwide average hotel occupancies at starred properties in Indonesia's main 14 tourism destinations averaged 52.37%, an improvement of 1.54% compared to the 50.83% average occupancy recorded nation-wide in May 2008. Meanwhile in Bali the average occupancy at starred hotels for May hit 61.96% increasing to 67.90% in June.
The average length of stay at starred hotels in the 14 main tourism destinations nationwide averaged 2.06 days in June.