Indonesian Marine Tourism Lose Away From Malaysia

MASSAPEDIA NEWS - Indonesia has thousands of islands with marine natural resources beautiful, can not be used as collateral for a country to benefit much from the tourism business. It was felt by Indonesia.

Problem travel, Indonesia is regarded as exotic destinations in the world, unfortunately, not maximum profits. Impact, just a few advantages that can fed the people of Indonesia of such great potential for tourism.

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Moreover, the issue of marine tourism, Indonesia is still far behind from Malaysia.

In fact, about the destination, it can not be denied, Indonesia has more scuba diving spots or dots and coastline longer than the neighbor country.

It was also disclosed Tourism Minister Arief Yahya when attending fairs and Extreme Deep Indonesia 2016 in Jakarta Convention Center (JCC), Senayan, Thursday (31/3). Arief Minister mentioned that Indonesia can profit from nautical tourism still far from Malaysia. He said marine tourism foreign exchange contributed only 10 percent of total foreign tourism sector, equivalent to US $ 1 billion.

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"This amount is far less when compared with neighboring countries such as Malaysia, baharinya travel contributed 40 per cent of foreign exchange with a value of US $ 8 billion," he said.

Even with the number of foreign tourists coming to Indonesia. Marine tourism accounted for only 10 percent of foreign tourists visiting or equal to 1 million of the total foreign tourist visits during 2014.

Of that amount, 60 percent of foreign tourists do travel the coast, 25 percent of travel or traveled nautical seascape with cruise, boat or yacht, and 15 percent underwater tours such as snorkeling and diving.

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It was of course very unfortunate. Because the potential for marine tourism is owned by Indonesia is very high, even fairly biggest in the world with 17,504 islands and a coastline of 95 181 kilometers.

Unfortunately, it's not a guarantee. Indonesia's natural wealth under the sea still can not beat the number of tourists visiting Malaysia, Thailand or Singapore.

In fact, Indonesia has 33 major dive destinations with more than 400 operators, while Malaysia only has 11 destinations and approximately 130 operators.

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"But why devisanya larger donations?" Said Arief.

In Malaysia, maritime destination is the most popular Cherating Beach, Port Dickson, Desaru Beach, Tanjung Aru, Pulau Perhentian, to Rantau Abang.

As in Thailand, mostly divers heading to the Similan Islands, Surin Islands, Koh Lanta, Koh Phi Phi and Koh Tao.

"We're not just lose as Malaysia, but also Thailand, and Singapore," he said.

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Ministers say the weakness Indonesia Arief is a delay, both about the ease of access to maritime destination as well as the completeness of accommodation in these destinations.

"The weakness of this nation is slow, we have to accelerate quickly if you want to get an advantage over US $ 1 billion," said Arief.

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Furthermore, Arief has set a profit target that he wants to accomplish with Indonesian marine tourism, which amounted to US $ 4 billion in 2019. Although the number is still far adrift from the advantages possessed by Malaysia.

"I want Indonesia to be an example in the realm of the fastest growing tourism business," he said.