Jakarta BPS Sees Recovery in Foreign Tourist Visits in 2022

Jakarta Central Statistics Agency (BPS) has noted that as many as 16,749 foreign tourists visited Jakarta through Soekarno Hatta and Hali Perdanakusuma airports in December 2021.

Starting this year, foreign tourist visits to Jakarta are starting to creep up

In detail, Soekarno Hatta Airport has 16,696 visits and Halim Perdanakusuma Airport has 53 visits.

Compared to November 2021, the number of foreign tourists visiting in December 2021 dropped by 12.1 percent (m-to-m). When compared to December 2020, the foreign tourist visits in December 2021 fell by 23.4 percent (y-on-y).

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During December 2021, there were five largest countries visited Jakarta, namely China 2,647 visits, Russia 2,154 visits, South Korea 1,182 visits, India 955 visits, and Japan 876 visits.

Jakarta BPBS Head, Anggoro Dwitjahyono said the development of foreign tourists over the past three years was quite volatile. In 2019, tourist visits looked stable, then dropped from January to April 2020. It was due to the spread of the Covid-19 virus in various countries, including Indonesia, especially in Jakarta.

"Starting this year, foreign tourists visit to Jakarta are starting to creep up, even though it's only a slight increase," he added, Wednesday (2/2).

Cumulatively, he explained, the number of foreign tourist visits throughout 2019 increased from month to month. Then in 2020, the cumulative increase in foreign tourist visits to Jakarta was relatively slow.

"Tourist visits throughout 2021 cumulatively reached 119,400 visits," he explained.

According to him, the room occupancy rate (TPK) for star hotels in Jakarta last December was 58.8 percent or rose at 5.5 percent compared to November 2021 (m-to-m). The number rose by 13.4 percent when compared to December 2020 (y-on-y).

In the last three years, the TPK in 2021 was generally higher than in 2020, except at the beginning of the year and the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic in July and August 2021.

"Last year, the TPK started to show improvement even though it hasn't recovered like normal conditions in 2019," he added.

Based on the star hotel class, the TPK for five-star hotels was 61.3 percent in December 2021, or the highest compared to the TPK for other star hotel classes.

When compared to the previous month in 2021, the TPK for two to five-star hotels increased with the largest increase in four-star hotels from the TPK of 50.8 percent to 58.0 or an increase of 7.2 percent.

He added the proportion of foreign guests staying at star hotels in December 2021 was 3.7 percent or lower than November 2021 at 5.9 percent (m-to-m).

"Five-star hotels are the main choice for foreign tourists to stay as much as 52.4 percent. Meanwhile, Indonesian tourists prefer to stay at three-star hotels as much as 41.7 percent," he stated.