Crowd at the ASTINDO Fair 2015
FOLLOWING the success of a travel fair held in Surabaya earlier this month, which raked in 10.5 billion rupiah (US$807,700) in ticket sales alone, the Association of Air Ticketing (ASTINDO) East Java Chapter has lined up another fair to be held in September this year.
Elly Hutabarat, chairman, ASTINDO, said: “Travellers today are waiting for special offers and travel fairs are events they are waiting for to get them.”
She observed that instead of going to the sales counters of travel companies, travellers were waiting for the travel fair to plan their trips.
Yongky Yanwintarko, chairman of ASTINDO East Java Chapter, pleased that the March fair had exceeded their 10 billion rupiah target, said the second fair in September is being held to capture the year-end outbound market.
An ASTINDO Fair also took place in Jakarta last weekend, estimated to have attracted 100,000 visitors with 150 billion rupiah in sales, a 15 per cent increase from last year.
