Weekly Business

August 18, 2009

TOURISM
Signs of Recovery

INDONESIAN tourism is showing signs of recovery after the bombings of the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels in Jakarta on July 17. Wiryanti Sukamdani, head of the Indonesian Association of Hotels & Restaurants, said hotel occupancy rates had risen to 69 percent in Jakarta, up from as low as 55 percent in the wake of the bombings, and 60 percent on national average.

Wiryanti called on the government to speed up the dis

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