Komodo National Park tightens rules for Komodo dragon encounters
Komodo National Park now applies mandatory ranger guidance, strict behaviour rules and daily visitor quotas managed through an online reservation syst…
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Komodo Airport Handled 48,798 Arrivals in May 2025
Komodo Airport recorded 45,261 domestic and 3,537 international arrivals in May 2025, according to BPOLBF.
Komodo National Park Revenue Tops Rp53 Billion, But District Gets Rp2.6 Billion
Manggarai Barat says Komodo National Park generated more than Rp53 billion in 2024, but the district recorded only Rp2.6 billion in tourism revenue fr…
Pink Beach Toilet Complaints Persist in Komodo National Park
October 2024 reporting from CNN Indonesia and Detik said tourists and guides were still complaining that Pink Beach in Komodo National Park lacked toi…
Labuan Bajo Investment Nears Rp570 Billion in Q1 2024
Indonesia’s tourism minister says investment realization in Labuan Bajo nearly reached Rp570 billion in the first quarter of 2024, with tourism and in…
Labuan Bajo’s tourism ‘quantum leap’ tests local capacity
A 2024 study by Universitas Gadjah Mada anthropologist Arkan Syafera argues that Labuan Bajo’s designation as an Indonesian Super Priority Destination…
Rp500 Billion Export-Finance Deal Backs Labuan Bajo Marina Development
Indonesia’s export-finance institution has arranged a Rp500 billion financing and guarantee facility, within a Rp1.05 trillion blended package, to sup…
Diving tops Manggarai Barat tourism revenue at Rp1.5 billion
Manggarai Barat had collected Rp5.7 billion in tourism revenue by Nov. 21, 2023, with diving contributing Rp1.5 billion and foreign visitors accountin…
BPOLBF secures Parapuar land-rights certificate for planned tourism zone
Indonesia’s Labuan Bajo Flores Tourism Authority now holds an HPL certificate over about 129.6 hectares in Parapuar Zone 1, inside a planned 400-hecta…
Wastehub cleanup removes 912 kilograms of waste at Komodo and Labuan Bajo
In June 2023, Waste Solution Hub and Oceanic Society coordinated underwater and beach cleanups around Labuan Bajo and Komodo National Park, mobilising…
IWP Reports 89 Waste Trips in Labuan Bajo Area in 2022
IWP said it carried out 89 waste-collection trips in 2022 across islands near Labuan Bajo, collecting 51,881 kilograms of material and sending recycla…
Study puts Manggarai Barat tourism retribution at Rp56.98 billion over 2007–2022
A local economics thesis using Manggarai Barat Tourism Office data reports Rp56.98 billion in tourism retribution collected between 2007 and 2022, wit…
Tourism Averaged 25.73% of West Manggarai Locally Generated Revenue
An academic study published in 2024 finds that tourism-related local revenues made up an average 25.73% of West Manggarai’s locally generated income b…
Manggarai Barat Plan Notes Tourism’s GDP Share Fell in 2019–2020
Manggarai Barat’s 2021–2026 development plan treats tourism as a key economic driver and records that the sector’s share of regional GDP declined betw…
How Komodo’s 2019 tourism receipts split between Jakarta and Manggarai Barat
Local and national authorities applied different ticketing and accounting systems for visits to Komodo National Park in 2019, creating a roughly Rp34…