Tempo Interactive, Tuesday, 28 December, 2010
TEMPO Interactive, Yogyakarta:The highest number of tourists visiting Yogyakarta are from the Netherlands, Setiawan K.E., chief of Yogyakarta Tourism Board announced Monday.
From January to September this year the number of Dutch tourists visiting the area totaled 23,766 people. “Last year, that number increased to 20,366. That means so far the number has increased by 3,400 people or by 16.7 percent,” he said.
The second-highest number of visitors were from Japan (14,650) and France (13,411). The number of Malaysian tourists has dropped to 12,550, from 12,673 people last year. According to Setiawan, more tourists are visiting Yogyakarta to see disaster-affected areas.
ANANG ZAKARIA
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