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PADANG, W Sumatra, June 8 Asia Pulse - Indonesia has been able to find another way to increase the number of visiting European tourists to Indonesia, despite a ban imposed by the European Union Commission on Indonesian airlines, an official of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism said.
"We regret the ban but we are still able to find another way how to increase the number of European tourists to Indonesia," Nia Nurcaya, director for convention, incentive and promotion affairs of the Ministry of Tourism and Culture, said here over the weekend.
She said that airlines were main component that supported Indonesia`s tourism development but the Indonesian airlines were still banned from flying in European airspace.
In the face of the ban, the government, in this case the Ministry of Tourism and Culture, had allowed foreign airlines to increase the frequencies of their flights to Indonesia.
"This means that tourists can come with foreign airlines to Indonesia. ...
Source: HighBeam Research, INDONESIAN TOURISM FINDS WAY ROUND EUROPEAN FLIGHT BAN.