The Central Statistics Agency (BPS) has announced that the number of foreign tourist visiting the capital dropped dramatically to around 150,000 people in August from 205,861 registered in July.
"It decreased by 28.58 percent," BPS head Agus Suherman said Monday as quoted by Tempointeraktif.com.
He then suggested that the Ramadan fasting month might be a`factor that contributed to the decline, especially for tourists from fellow Muslim countries like Malaysia and Saudi Arabia.
Agus added, however, that the loss of foreign tourists had been balanced by the high number of domestic tourists during the holiday season.
He said BPS had calculated that hotel occupancy rates only dropped by 9 percent this year thanks to the growing trend of families moving temporarily to hotels because their house maids went home during the Eid Mubarak holidays.
Souurce: the jakarta post
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