What official data show about tourism and fisheries around Flores

Flores and the surrounding islands are not defined by tourism alone: official data show Nusa Tenggara Timur’s economy and coastal communities can be understood through both visitor movement and fishing activity. In July 2025, the province recorded 981,528 domestic-tourist trips heading to NTT, while its capture fishery recorded 7,461,937 kilograms in July 2024.

How many domestic-tourist trips reached NTT?

According to Statistics Indonesia’s East Nusa Tenggara office, or BPS NTT, 981,528 domestic-tourist trips headed to NTT in July 2025. The figure counts trips, not unique people, and rose 8.34 percent from June 2025, according to BPS NTT, 2025.

Domestic travel was largely generated within the province: BPS NTT said 91.95 percent of domestic-tourist trips came from residents travelling within NTT in July 2025. That provincial pattern provides context for Flores, where travel statistics include movement across the wider province rather than a separate island-only total.

How many foreign visitors entered NTT?

Foreign arrivals to NTT reached 25,155 visits in July 2025, according to BPS NTT, 2025. The total was 109.71 percent higher than in July 2024, while 83.61 percent entered through land crossings, 15.10 percent through airports and 1.29 percent by sea, according to BPS NTT, 2025.

Those entry shares describe NTT as a whole. They should not be read as a direct count of international arrivals at Labuan Bajo or any other Flores gateway.

What does the fishing data show?

NTT’s official capture-fisheries dataset records 7,461,937 kilograms in July 2024, according to the provincial Marine and Fisheries Office’s Satu Data portal, 2025. The measure covers fish and other aquatic organisms caught through capture fishing, not aquaculture, and is recorded for a particular month.

The same dataset records 10,187,261 kilograms in June 2024, according to the provincial Marine and Fisheries Office, 2025. These monthly figures show why fisheries statistics should be reported with their month and measure rather than treated as an annual production total.

What do these numbers mean for Flores and nearby islands?

Together, the datasets show two distinct forms of movement and production relevant to Flores and its surrounding seas: tourism statistics count trips or visits, while fisheries statistics count kilograms of wild-capture output. Neither dataset alone measures the full economic importance of Flores, nor does either one isolate every island.

For readers following Labuan Bajo, Komodo and other Flores destinations, the clearest official picture is therefore province-wide: tourism demand can be tracked through BPS travel counts, while coastal production can be tracked through the provincial fisheries dataset. The two measures are complementary but should not be combined into one total.

Sources

• Badan Pusat Statistik Provinsi
• Portal Satu Data NTT