NTB tourism’s glorious moment should be returned

Senggigi - The secretary of West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) province, Nanang Samodra, considered that indeed the glorious era of NTB tourism has passed; however, he added, all elements in the region should make great efforts to bring it back. “The golden moment of NTB tourism could be felt in 1997 until a riot occurred in 2000. To return it the acts of all elements are needed,” he said in a gathering of tourism players attended also by NTB’s legislature’s members recently here. All available components should cooperate well as only by that way the tourism sector that has been initiated since 1980s can be robust again.

“According to my personal judgment, there is no togetherness in NTB tourism. We work partially and busy with our own arguments,” he commented.
Further he said that despite his long absence in NTB tourism, he expected that the joining of NTB’s ASITA (Association of Indonesian Travel Agents’) chair, Misbach Mulyadi, as a member of NTB’s legislature for the period 2004-2009, would bring improvement to the gloomy NTB tourism.
The secretary during the occasion also hoped that mass media to support the attempts to recover NTB tourism.

He said that the government and tourism stakeholders had conducted promotional efforts within and outside the Indonesia, but bad covering of media to small crimes had tarnished those attempts.

“We expect media to give balanced information for example a covering on a crime should also be followed by the news on how the police handle it. Hence guests will feel secure to visit NTB.”
In the other he expected that a small crime should not take a bigger portion in news that the many good things in NTB.

The secretary’s view was similar to the view of Drs Tjok Suthendra, the head of West Lombok’s Tourism, Cultural, and Art Authority that he commented indeed the commitment of all elements in NTB was badly in need to promote NTB tourism.

The elements comprise government/legislature, tourism players, and the society. Those three elements should own a strong commitment to develop the region’s tourism.
“The current tourism we develop now is people based tourism. It means that tourism directly benefits people and they keep it,” he said. *pry/ant

TOGETHERNESS-Togetherness should available in developing tourism as it makes things run swifter.

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