JAKARTA - Both inbound and outbound travellers in Indonesia have cancelled trips because of the Iraq war and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in March. At least 95 percent of inbound tourists cancelled visits to Indonesia and 90 percent of outbound travelers from the country dropped travel plans.
Rudiana, a director of travel operator Wita Tours, said inbound visitors were almost zero and the number of Indonesians travelling abroad last month dropped sharply.
Rudiana said Wita Tours handled tours for only six Japanese visitors in March as against more than 1,000 in the same month last year. Normally March-April is peak season for arrivals from Japan, he said.
He said the company handled no tour for visitors from Europe long before the Iraq war broke out as a number of countries still warn its citizens against visiting Indonesia for security reason. In Bintan ,south of Singapore in Riau, tour operators planned to temporarily stop operation as hotel occupancy rate shrank to only six
percent following the outbreak of SARS.
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JAKARTA - Both inbound and outbound travellers in Indonesia have cancelled trips because of the Iraq war and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in March. At least 95 percent of inbound tourists cancelled visits to Indonesia and 90 percent of outbound travelers from the country dropped travel plans.
