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Text your say: Comprehensive approach to boost tourism
Your comments on President Joko âJokowiâ Widodoâs demand for regulatory breakthroughs and accelerated development of 10 of the nationâs key tourist destinations, including Lake Toba in North Sumatra, Labuan Bajo in East Nusa Tenggara and Morotai in North Maluku, to boost the tourist sector:Maybe you have heard of the Lonely Planet guidebooks
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strong>Your comments on President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo's demand for regulatory breakthroughs and accelerated development of 10 of the nation's key tourist destinations, including Lake Toba in North Sumatra, Labuan Bajo in East Nusa Tenggara and Morotai in North Maluku, to boost the tourist sector:
Maybe you have heard of the Lonely Planet guidebooks. This company has been producing best-selling guides to every country in the world, directed at 'backpackers', since the 1970s.
Their aim is to advise people how to have 'authentic' experiences in countries ' i.e. no one reading a Lonely Planet is looking to eat Western food in a non-Western country. No doubt in Indonesia there is still a market out there for the 'Club Med' style experience ' air-conditioning, familiar food. But this is largely among newly traveling people, such as the Chinese.
I think there are specific reasons why Indonesia is not attracting the other type of travelers ' the authentic travelers ' as other Asian nations like Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Japan and even China are. One is the local attitude that sees travelers as cash cows. This makes traveling unpleasant and unengaging for travelers.
Alba2000
How about garbage disposal and education of local people in order to keep places pristine?
Wherever you go in Indonesia where there is economic gain, places become filthy and polluted with plastic and other garbage.
Oliverbouwmester
Indonesia offers cheap holidays that are hard for foreigners to refuse.
The True Patriot
'Previously, the government revealed its plans to make Lake Toba the country's first single-authority tourist site, with the exception of Nusa Dua in Bali, as it aims to simplify infrastructure development and the management of tourism sites in the future.'
Developing these sites runs the risk of destroying the beauty that made them attractive in the first place. These kinds of schemes are usually counterproductive. Nusa Dua is a model of how not to develop tourism: i.e. squeeze it for all it's worth.
Devanag
Cheap service, cheap food, cheap health, cheap English, cheap roads and cheap air-con also, which is hard to accept.
There's still a long way to go to attract wealthy tourists, which is the aim of tourism, to attract tourists so they will spend money in your country, isn't it?
Teevo
Most tourists can now come in on a free 30-day visa on arrival at specific airports/seaports and are allowed to leave through a dozen more.
The payable visa on arrival is renewable for another 30 days.
Cinnamonape
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