How Important Tourism For Indonesia

BENEFITS IN TERMS OF ECONOMY FOR TOURISM

                Tourism benefits in terms of economy is tourism generates substantial foreign exchange for the country thereby increasing the country's economy. Foreign exchange earned in a row in 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2000 amounted to 6,307.69; 5,321.46; 4,331.09; 4,710.22; and 5,748.80 million US dollars (Santosa, 2001). In 2002 and 2003, despite the tragedy Kuta (Bali bombings), foreign exchange value also remains high, at US $ 4,496 Billion in 2002 and US $ 4,307 Billion in 2003.

BENEFITS IN TERMS OF CULTURAL FOR TOURISM

            Another benefit arising from the tourism industry, among others, can be seen also in terms of culture. With the rapid development of the tourism industry, it will bring understanding and intercultural understanding through interaction tourist visitors (tourists) to the local communities where these tourist areas are located. From this interaction the tourists can get to know and appreciate the local culture and understand the background of the local culture embraced by the community.

BENEFITS IN TERMS OF ENVIRONMENT FOR TOURISM

            Tourism also bring benefits to the environment as an attraction if you want to get a lot of visits from cleanliness rating be maintained so that we become accustomed to caring for and keeping our environment in order to always awake tourism cleanliness. Development not result in negative impacts on the environment and land degradation pertaninan either land or cultivated lands and paddy fields. Their forests still remain well preserved. Community together and agree to preserve the forest and without dependence on the forest. Basically, the local community has been aware of the need for forest conservation, forest area is a catchment area that could be used for subsistence or other living creatures as well as for rice fields.

BENEFITS IN TERMS OF INTERCOURSE VALUE AND SCIENCE FOR TOURISM

            Tourism benefits that we can in terms of social values is that we become more a lot of friends from different countries and we can know the habits of people from each country so that we can learn how a good practice in each nagara. Also,  benefit from tourism science for study of tourism we can also know where the location and keunggualn an attraction so that we can learn why a tourist attraction can move forward and be able to apply in the attraction of our region is not well developed.

BENEFITS IN TERMS OF OPPORTUNITIES AND EMPLOYMENT FROM TOURISM

            Tourism also created job opportunities. The means of tourism such as hotel and travel business is "labor intensive". By comparison much more for hotels and restaurants than for other endeavors. For each bed takes approximately 2 labor force. In United States for the bed needed 279 workers. Of course the figure varies according to country. In Indonesia, for each room required approximately 2 labor force.

It was all about labor force that is directly related to tourism. In addition, tourism also creates job opportunities that are not directly related to tourism. Most important in the field of road and building construction. Many buildings erected on hotels, restaurants, shops artshop, etc. Rating-tourist also need to eat and drink, this is all indirectly create jobs in agriculture. Thus, tourism has a lot of benefits in terms of opportunities and employment.