Penulisan Bahasa Inggris2# benefits of increased tourism industry

Increase in foreign tourists
to RI of 7.19% in 2014:

The number of foreign tourists arriving in the country through last year rose by 7.19 percent, from 8.8 million tourists in 2013 to 9.43 million in 2014, Central Statistics Agency (BPS) data revealed on Monday.

The country’s main tourist gateway, Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali, recorded the highest number of arrivals with 3.73 million tourists in 2014, up by 15.11 percent from 3.24 million tourists the previous year.

Meanwhile, Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Banten, west of Jakarta, recorded only a 0.26 percent growth in foreign visitors, up from 2.24 million people in 2013 to 2.246 million people last year.

BPS head Suryamin said that Lombok International Airport in West Nusa Tenggara was the gateway that saw the highest increase in foreign tourists with a jump of 73.06 percent to 69,881 people in 2014, up from 40,380 people in 2013.

In addition, in December 2014 alone, there were 915,334 travelers visiting destinations across the archipelago, a rise of 6.35 percent from 764,461 travelers in the previous he said.

# From the news, we can conclude that tourism sector is one of the vital sector in Indonesia. Tourism impact to increase economic in Indonesia is very prominent. Tourism is one if the industry in Indonesia who can give the most earned for Indoensia. There are many reasons why tourism impact can develop economy.

Tourism Impact on Economy

Positive Economic Impacts of Tourism

    1. Foreign Exchange Earnings

Tourism sector spending will lead to economies of local communities are stretched and become a stimulus to invest and lead to growth as the growing financial sector and other economic sectors.

Experience in some countries that the arrival of tourists to a tourist destination also cause the growth of foreign exchange business to provide a service and convenience to tourists during their tour.

    2. Contributions To Government Revenues

Tourism's contribution to government revenues can be broken down into two, namely: direct and indirect contributions. Contributions directly derived from tax revenue collected from tourism employees and tourism businesses in the tourist area received directly by the department of revenue a destination.

While the indirect contribution of tourism to government revenue comes from taxes or customs duties on goods imported and the tax charged to tourists who visit.


    3. Employment Generation

In some countries that have developed tourism sector, it is evident that the international tourism sector contributed significantly to the creation of employment opportunities, creation of tourism-related businesses such as business accommodation, restaurants, clubs, taxis, souvenir arts and crafts businesses.

    4. Infrastructure Development

The development of the tourism sector could also encourage local governments to provide better infrastructure, water supply, electricity, telecommunications, public transport and other ancillary facilities as a logical consequence and all of which can improve the quality of life for both tourists as well as local community itself as host ,

    5. Development of Local Economies

Tourism revenue is often used to measure the economic value in a tourist area. While there are some local income is very difficult to calculate because not all tourist expenditures can be clearly known, such as income informal workers such as taxi drivers are not official, unofficial guides, and so forth.

My Opini

There many Industry which can develop Indonesia’s Economic. One of these,there is tourism. Indonesia is the countru who have many paradise place which can visit by tourists. This Sector must we use to Increase foreign exchange which decrease in many sectors this years. We can Develop Indonesia culture to make tourists interesting to visit Indonesia. The Other positive effects which we can earn is, we can redude unemployment and give them chance to carrier in tourism sector. We are Indonesian people and we must give positive view to overseas that we have best tourism country in the world and we can also help indonesia to develop Economy from that sector.

Source:

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/02/02/increase-foreign-tourists-ri-719-2014-bps.html

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