Pandemic Impact: Indonesia Only Received 4 Million Foreign Tourists in 2020
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The COVID-19 pandemic hit Indonesia's tourism sector hard. The number of foreign tourist visits (Wisman) decreased by 75.03%, from 16.1 million in 2019 to 4.02 million in 2020.
Meanwhile, monthly foreign tourist visits began to increase by 13.58%, from 144,500 in November 2020 to 164,100 in December 2020. However, this was still significantly lower than the previous year, showing an 88.08% decrease from 1.4 million visits.
Throughout 2020, the largest number of foreign tourists came from Timor Leste (1.01 million), followed by Singapore (277,470), Australia (251,190), and China (235,640).
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