Various attractions in the city of Medan, North Sumatra tend to be less promotional tourists to visit the city was very lacking. "Sightseeing in Singapore very much, but due to lack of promotion, the interests of tourists visiting too minimal," said tour guide in Medan, M Joseph, Thursday (08/07/2010).

According to Joseph, the City of Medan less to promote the tourist attractions are there, both domestically and abroad, so that no increase in the number of visitors significantly from year to year.

Joseph, who had worked as a tour guide for nearly 11 years admitted, mostly foreign tourists coming to the North Sumatran city of Medan in particular to complain because it was difficult to get tourist information.

"Tourists always complain because of difficulty in getting information on attractions in Medan. The government should create a website that the entire contents of the existing tourism, so all people can access easily," he said.

Joseph added that the Office of Tourism also plays an active role in preserving the existing tourist attractions because during the treatment of tourism objects still considered reduced. "Places of tourist less maintenance and cleanliness we can see for yourself tours are also not maintained. In fact, the cleanliness and naturalness of the supporting factors that tourists want to come back to Indonesia," he said.

Head of the Central Statistics Agency said North Sumatra Sidabalok Alimuddin, to May 2010, the number of foreign tourists visiting the North Sumatra have increased with the number of 15 959 persons compared with April 2010 that only 15 091 people. "This amount increased by 15.91 percent in May 2010 of 13 768 people in the same month in 2009," he said.

Until now the number of tourists continued to dominated the number of visitors from Malaysia with 9123 people, followed by tourists from Singapore by 828 people. "An increasing number of foreign tourists in May 2010 compared with the previous month due to the increase of tourists from South Korea up to 21 times as many as 65 people from before were only three people in April 2010," said Alimuddin.