The U-17 World Cup in Indonesia at the end of this year is considered to have a big impact on Indonesian tourism. Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy Sandiaga Uno predicts the World Cup event will attract hundreds of thousands of foreign tourists to Indonesia. The calculation targeted 20% of spectators in each match is foreign tourists. If there are around 20 thousand people per match, meaning that from a total of 52 matches it can bring in more than 200 thousand foreign tourists.
“We are counting again because that was said that there are about 52 matches and if we use the formula that 20% of the targeted total spectators are around 20 thousand, it means there are around 4 thousand more that we can aim. So, maybe if the total can add to Foreign tourists around 150 thousand-200 thousand foreign tourists, “explained Sandiaga in the Presidential Palace area, Central Jakarta, Thursday (7/13/2023).
In addition, Sandiaga was also asked to prepare a tour package to the creative economy exhibition in each stadium and match.
“Kemenparekraf is given the task of preparing tourism packages as well as creative economic exhibitions which will later be part of the offer of promotions for the audience and also the FIFA World Cup U-17 participants. Creative that has been curated, “said Sandiaga.
Furthermore, Sandiaga was also asked to prepare the same thing for other international sports. For example, the Fiba World Cup or Basketball World Cup.
“Surely we welcome and appreciate the event, events, world-class sports such as the Fiba World Cup basketball world championship which will take place in August,” said Sandiaga.
July 13, 2023, detikFinance
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