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By APD Writer Maverick
JAKARTA, June 21 (APD) – China’s Guizhou province held tourism promotion event here to seek potential visitors from Indonesia to boost the province’s tourism sector.
Remarking the event Secretary General Government of Guizhou province Ren Xiansheng said that besides promoting destinations in the Chinese province to potential Indonesian visitors, the event was also aimed at further promoting China-Indonesia cooperation in tourism sector,
“The number of visitors from Indonesia to Guizhou province has grown 21.1 percent to around 12,800 ones last year. In total we received around 1 million foreign visitors last year,” Ren said in the event held on Tuesday in a lavish hotel here.
The event was filled with enchanting video image display on the province’s prominent destinations, featured with Guizhou’s traditional dance performances.
According to Ren, as part of efforts to expand arrivals of visitors from Indonesia to Guizhou, direct flights serving the province’s capital of Guiyang to Indonesia’s Bali and Bintan have been planned.
Guizhou’s tourism promotional event held in Indonesian has the right moment as 2017 has been set as year of China-ASEAN tourism cooperation, he added.
“China and ASEAN have different tour destination resources that we can complement to each other,” he said.
Guizhou offers enormously beautiful natural sceneries with most of them were mountains.
Pristine forest, lakes, canyons, waterfalls, caves and hot springs were also significant tourism resources in the province, Ren added.
Efforts to expand hot spring attraction were now carried out by the provincial government with new hot spring sites have been increasingly found in the province’s counties, he said.
Ren said the province also hosts the largest number of China’s diverse tribes with each of them has their own culture and traditions, potential sources for the nation’s tourism sector.
Hailing the event, an Indonesian official said that it would further expand people-to-people contact between Indonesia and China and expand tourism cooperation of both nations.
“We hope travel agents from Guizhou and Indonesia to team up together in further jointly promote and boost arrivals of visitors to the respective economies,” Director for Asia Pacific Tourism at Indonesian tourism ministry Vincentius Jemadu said.
Thanks to expanding direct flights from Chinese cities to several Indonesian destinations, Indonesia saw increasing number of Chinese visitors into the country, making them dominated foreign visitor arrival figures in Indonesia since late last year.
(ASIA PACIFIC DAILY)
