Indonesia promotes Bali in Japan`s International Tourism Expo

Tokyo (ANTARA News) - Indonesia again promoted Bali as the famous tourist destination with a good security in an international tourism expo organized by the Japan Association Travel Agency (JATA) in Tokyo, Japan.

To attract more foreign tourists to visit Indonesia, we really want to Bali as the most secured tourist object including a serious of handling of bird flu by local government," Director General for Marketing Affairs of the Culture and Tourism Ministry Thamrin Bachri told Antara correspondent here on Sunday.

He also gave an emphasis on the importance of promoting Bali as a secured tourist object following the a myriad of sensitive issues on Bali bombs and bird flu affecting this region in the past few years.

Japan itself was one of the main indicators of the international tourism industry, he said.

"With a big number of Japanese tourists flowing to Bali, it will hopefully place Bali to be in the top rank in international tourism," he said.

Based on Antara monitoring of the international tourism export, Indonesian stand was more dominated by Bali and Jakarta as could be seen from the brochures made available to the visitors.