Indonesia resumes international flights to Yogyakarta
January 11th, 2008
Officials from Indonesia’s, Yogyakarta’s tourism office have announced that international flights are set to resume to and from the ancient city after stopping in 2005 in a bid to boost tourism in the region. The city has recently attracted quite a bit of interest from tourists who are visiting the city as a launch pad to other attractions.
The head of Yogyakarta’s tourism office, Tazbir, has said that flights from the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur will be served by Malaysian Airlines and Air Asia, with return trips flown three to four times a week per airline.
“We are relaunching flights as a part of Visit Indonesia 2008,” Tazbir told AFP.
Since enduring a series of terror bombings, natural disasters and health scares, Indonesia has recorded a 2.38 percent drop in foreign tourist arrivals to four million in 2006.
However, these figures have recently made a turn around, with Indonesia seeing its visitor figures increase by 14 percent in the first 11 months of 2007. It has been estimated that approximately 150,000 of those visitors went to Yogyakarta.
“With international direct flights, we hope to raise the arrival of international tourists by 30 percent this year,” said Tazbir.
He also revealed that Malaysian Airlines will commence flights on January 30 while Air Asia will start on February 1.
Source: http://www.etravelblackboardasia.com/
Entry Filed under: World Tourism News
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