4 Sightseeing Health in Indonesia

4 Sightseeing Health in Indonesia - The study Klynfeld Goerdeller Pear Marwick International showed an increase in public spending for health tourism to the figure of 30 percent. In 2010, public spending for this kind of tour was recorded at U.S. $ 78.5 billion, and this year the estimate increased to U.S. $ 100 billion.

Will refer this figure, the government set out four areas as a tourist destination by developing health and hospital services for the spa facility. Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy Indonesia, Mari Elka Pangestu said the four cities are Jakarta, Bali, Manado and Makassar.

The strategy used in developing the health tourism is to synergize the existence of hospitals with facilities that exist in the four cities. Later, the government will also increase the area of West Java, Central Java, East Java, and Sumatra as a health tourism destination of Indonesia.


Elka said that the ministry is now holding a travel agency that will help in developing and promoting the health and fitness advice.

Indonesia currently has adequate infrastructure to develop health and fitness advice. Currently, the unit recorded five hospitals in the country are of international standard. In addition, there are 4500 spa therapist who has won certification from the government.

Currently known a lot of spa therapists from Indonesia who work in Europe, Asia and even the United States. There are two methods of spa from Indonesia are well developed and recognized by the world, the therapeutic methods from Java and Bali.

The first step in developing the health tourism is to create a standard package, so that tourists do not hesitate to seek treatment in Indonesia. The current government continues to encourage the development of hospitals in the country in order to implement international standards of health care. In the foreseeable future, the government is targeting eight more hospitals of international standard so that this kind of travel is growing rapidly.