This year again the target is 13,8 million visitors, and 79,3 million domestic trips, which together should generate about US$20-billion.

Political conflict has directly affected visitors' confidence.

When there was the tsunami last year, I thought that was the end of the tourism industry but we recovered very fast, in only six months.

The demonstrations were peaceful, so the impact was only on incentive travel from Singapore and China. From Singapore we lost 5 000, and China 10 000, but now it's come back.