Not Bali, This is the Favorite City for Indonesians to Spend Christmas and New Year Holidays

TRIBUNBATAM.id - Christmas and New Year's (Nataru) holidays are in sight.

Not a few Indonesians have decided on tourist destinations during this Nataru holiday period.

A number of tourist destinations in Indonesia are the destinations to spend Nataru's holiday this time. 

Then, which area is the favorite for the Indonesian people to visit on the 2022 Nataru holiday?

If Bali is in your head, the answer is not quite right.

Bali does have extraordinary charm, it has even been recognized by international travelers.

However, for the Christmas and New Year holidays this time, it turns out that Bali is not the choice of most Indonesians as a tourist destination.

This is based on the results of a survey conducted by Data Indonesia from 27 October to 23 November 2022.

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Apparently, instead of choosing Bali, most people in Indonesia actually choose Bandung as a tourist destination.

Apart from Bandung, Yogyakarta also occupies the second position as a tourist destination at the end of 2022.

"As the pandemic has subsided, many people want to spend their year-end holidays outside the city, but Bandung is in first place," said Head of DataIndonesia.id Team, Setyardi Widodo in a webinar, Thursday (22/12).

As many as 15.7 percent of respondents in the survey chose Bandung as their vacation at the end of the year.

Then 14.05 percent of respondents chose Yogyakarta, and 9.92 percent of respondents chose Malang, East Java.

"Bali is still a destination, but it is in sixth place. A total of 4.96 respondents chose Bali," he said.

A total of 380 respondents spread across various provinces in Indonesia participated in this survey.