APD | Indonesia ranked among Twitter’s big ten favored tour destinations

By APD writer Aditya Nugraha

JAKARTA, March 26 (APD) – Indonesia has been named among world’s ten most favored tour destinations for its well perceptions on security, historical heritages and Travel value, results of recent survey carried out by Twitter social media said.

Indonesia is ranked number 10 after Thailand, the United States, China, Japan, Singapore, Australia, China’s Hong Kong, the United Kingdom and Malaysia, according to Twitter’s recent survey on trend of popular destinations carried out on 7,500 users in 13 countries and regions, including 6 in Asia Pacific region.

Indonesia’s rank is higher than South Korea, the Philippines and India in the survey as observed by Twitter Asia Pacific users.

“Indonesia’s territory has great tourism potentialities that now can easily be accessed,” Twitter Head of Research, Asia Pacific & Middle East and North Africa Martyn U'ren said in a statement released here on Tuesday.

Beautiful rural areas, diverse of cultures and friendly livelihood are part of attractions mostly preferred by Twitter users on Indonesia as expressed in the survey, Martyn said.

Besides countries in Asia Pacific, Indonesia also greatly attracts potential tourists from western countries, he cited results of Twitter’s research.

According to Twitter’s research, 19 percent of potential tourists in the United Kingdom are eager to Travel to Indonesia. In the same respect, 18 percent and 14 percent were found in European Community countries and in the United States.

The research also learned that tourists have extensively used Twitter to discuss their Traveling plans and posted their Travel experiences.

Globally over 354 million tweets about Traveling have been posted throughout last year with most tweeted countries were the United States, the United Kingdom, India, Indonesia and Canada, Martyn said.

(ASIA PACIFIC DAILY)