Cempaka Culture and Tourism: Tourist arrival target achievable, says minister

"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Friday, December 28, 2007

Tourist arrival target achievable, says minister

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

With a wide range of promotional programs both at home and abroad, the government is optimistic that the Visit Indonesia Year 2008 campaign will draw at least 7 million foreign tourists.

"I'm optimistic that we can reach the target and book US$6.4 billion in foreign exchange earnings, as we've done many campaign activities both domestically and internationally," Culture and Tourism Minister Jero Wacik said at a year-end media conference on Thursday.

Indonesia will host over 100 international events ranging from cultural and musical to sports activities throughout the archipelago as part of Visit Indonesia Year 2008. The government has allocated up to US$15 million to finance the campaign.

Indonesia's first Visit Indonesia campaign in 1991 was not as successful as expected, adding just 400,000 tourists to the arrival total.

Jero said improving security conditions in the country were another factor that could help attract more foreign tourists.

"Thanks to this, we've seen an increase of foreign tourist arrivals this year, reaching 5.5 million tourists from 4.8 million in 2006, and generating about $5.3 billion in foreign exchange income," Jero said.

"And this year's tourist arrivals are the highest in the last 10 years," he said.

He explained that from January to October, the ministry recorded 3.7 million tourists, an increase of 14.24 percent over the 3.2 million notched in the same period last year. The 3.7 million tourists arrived through the 15 main entry gates, including the airports of Soekarno Hatta in Tangerang, Ngurah Rai in Bali, Polonia in Medan and Juanda in Surabaya.

In November and December, Indonesia has seen around 900,000 tourists entering Indonesia through those gates, he said.

Singaporeans still dominated Indonesia's tourist arrivals in the first 10 months, totaling almost 750,000, but down from 772,216 in the same period of last year.

They were followed by Malaysia with 463,517 visits, and Japan with almost 400,000.

The ministry estimated that in 2007, about 116 million local tourists took about 219 million trips, slightly increased from the 114 million people who took about 216 million trips in 2006.

They were estimated to have spent about Rp 79.8 trillion this year, up from Rp 78.9 trillion in 2006.

The minister said earlier that his office was also hoping more Chinese tourists would come to Indonesia next year to take advantages of the special offers provided by hotels and airlines during the year.

According to China's National Tourism Administration, nearly 30 million Chinese traveled abroad in the first nine months of this year, up by 17 percent from the same period last year. That means China remains Asia's largest source of tourists.(ndr/dic)