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Kupang to hold Komodo Travel Mart 2017
Labuan Bajo will be the main highlight of this event, as well as Kelimutu tri-colored lake in Ende regency that has been called as the next Labuan Bajo.
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Aerial view of Padar Island in between Komodo and Rinca Islands near Labuan Bajo in West Manggarai, East Nusa Tenggara. (Shutterstock/File)
K
upang is set to host the Komodo Travel Mart (KTM) 2017 that will be held on October 18 until 21 at the Swiss-Belinn Kristal Kupang hotel.
The expo, that is initiated by The Association of Indonesian Tour and Travel Agencies (ASITA) NTT, the NTT tourism industry and PT Angkasa Pura I, will offer tourists destinations located in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) to 16 countries.
There will be two programs that will be highlighted in this event, the first one is tourism travel mart exchange on October 18 until 19 in Kupang and the other one is a post-tour on October 20 – 21 where participants will travel to Atambua, Soe, Kupan, Labuan Bajo, Ende and Lembata.
Labuan Bajo will be the main highlight of this event, as well as Kelimutu tri-colored lake in Ende regency that has been called as the next Labuan Bajo.
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“And then Atambua which is the center of cross-border activities from the government and tourism ministry. The last two destinations are Kupang and South Central Timor regency that will be put into one tour package,” told ASITA NTT head, Abed Frans.
Up until the early October, there are already 200 buyers who have confirmed their attendance for the event. These buyers come from 16 different countries in the South America and the Caribbean as well as 20 Indonesian provinces.
“There will be 50 sellers from NTT who will promote and sell NTT tourist destinations,” Abed added.
PT Angkasa Pura is planning to hold a focus group discussion about tourism improvement with NTT as the main focus, the company is also hosting a tourism human resources training as a way to support the sustainable tourism development in NTT.
Last year, NTT welcomed a total of 882,395 tourists, 769,962 of them were local tourists and the rest 112,433 were international tourists, it was 40 percent higher than the total number of tourists in 2015. (asw)
