Ecotourism has evolved as one of the potential tourism industry to increase foreign exchange revenues, especially in the last decade. Nearly 10% of workers in the world, working in the tourism sector and not less than 11% Gross Domestic Product (GDP) around the world come from this sector. In Indonesia, ecotourism has contributed foreign exchange amounting to Rp. 80 trillion in 2008 with the number of foreign tourists as much as 6.5 million people. Revenue increased 33% from the year 2007 (Rp.60 trillion), where the number of foreign tourists coming to Indonesia for 5 million people. [more...]
EKOWISATA mampu menyumbang pendapatan sektor kehutanan sampai Rp 80 triliun tahun 2008. Angka itu bisa bertambah sejalan dengan upaya peningkatan pada titik-titik ekowisata yang terdapat di Tanah Air. Objek ekowisata, selama ini, berada di bawah pengelolaan departemen kehutanan.
Ternyata, ekowisata menjadi sektor yang mampu menyumbangkan devisa yang bernilai besar sekali. Bayangkan, jumlah wisatawan mancanegara yang berkunjung ke lokasi ekowisata tercatat sebanyak 6,5 juta orang. Jumlah penerimaan devisa naik 33 persen dari tahun 2007, yang berjumlah Rp 60 triliun.
Kepala Pusat Informasi Kehutanan, Masyhud, mengungkapkan di Jakarta, pecan lalu, potensi ekowisata masih sangat besar. Indonesia memiliki 530 unit kawasan konservasi yang terdiri dari [more...]
Gado-gado is a traditional dish in Indonesian cuisine, and is a vegetable salad served with a peanut saucedressing, eaten as a main dish. It is widely served from hawkers carts, stalls (warung) as well as in restaurants both in Indonesia and worldwide.
We can easily find Gado-gado in many places in Indonesia, from Warung Kaki Lima in public market to five star hotel. The taste with fresh vegetables combine with the peanuts sauce are the main sensation [more...]

Do you dream to sleep in a “hip” but not too expensive hotel? To wake up in a coffee plantation? To experience a lifestyle that recalls the golden age of travel in the 1930s? Or to have a room which objects have been displayed at the National Museum? Indonesia makes it possible with some extraordinary hotels. [more...]
Tak Kenal Maka Tak Sayang, begitu pepatah berbunyi untuk mengindikasikan betapa proses mengenali akan sangat mendukung dalam setiap perasaan sayang yang kita miliki. Nah, sebagai satu daerah di Indonesia, Pandeglang memiliki keindahan dan pesona wisata yang tidak kalah dengan daerah lain. Untuk itu, kenali dan kunjungi objek wisata di pandeglang adalah satu hal yang mutlak untuk kita bisa mengapresiasi keindahan potensi wisata tersebut.
Pandeglang sendiri merupakan kabupaten yang terletak di ujung pulau Jawa tepatnya di propinsi Banten, beragam potensi wisata yang dimilikinya membuat daerah ini berpontesi untuk dijadikan daerah kunjungan wisata andalan di Indonesia, apalagi dengan akses yang dekat dengan Ibukota [more...]
From http://www.usatoday.com/
When CNN medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta came down with H1N1, or swine flu, in Afghanistan last month, he blogged about being “the sickest I’ve ever been.” And with the federal Centers for Disease Control reporting that a second wave of the flu is spreading widely across the nation, USA TODAY’s Laura Bly answers questions on whether travel insurance covers H1N1.
Q: What is a typical travel insurance policy cost, and what are the major coverage areas?
A: Most travel insurance [more...]
From Kementerian Budaya dan Pariwisata Indonesia
Indonesia is the world’s largest archipelago with over 17,000 islands. The country stretches 5,100 km along the equator between Australia and Asia and is bordered by the Pacific and Indian Oceans at the Equator. Few countries in the world could match Indonesia’s diversity of population with some 490 different ethnics living together. With a fascinating, colourful and sometimes tumultuous past, Indonesia is a place of rich and diverse culture. Indonesia is “Ultimate in Diversity”.
Indonesia stretches 5,100 km along the equator (one-sixth of the circumference of the earth!) between Australia and Asia and is bordered [more...]