Despite the lack of direct services, Indonesia’s Central Java Province in recent years is seeing healthy growth from China as a visitor source market.
Central Java received some 667,320 international arrivals in 2018, of which China contributed around 80,000 arrivals – 10 percent more than the previous year – to make up about 12 percent of the inbound market.
The last two years clearly saw a significant jump in Chinese arrival numbers to Central Java, compared to 2016 when arrivals from China were barely five percent of international visitors to the province, according to Sinoeng Rachmadi, head of the Department of Youth, Sports, and Tourism in Central Java.
Read Original Article