Tourism villages should focus on uniqueness to draw tourists: Minister


Jakarta (ANTARA) – Villages, Improvement of Deprived Areas, and Transmigration Minister Abdul Halim Iskandar urged tourism villages to reveal their uniqueness to draw vacationers.

“Specializing in uniqueness will help villages construct a powerful picture that distinguishes them from different locations,” the minister famous in a press release right here on Saturday.

On the 2023 Nusantara Tourism Village Competitors awards occasion in Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB), Friday (November 24), he suggested that villages also needs to conduct improvement authentically and dynamize village establishments and tradition to all the time be adaptive to the surroundings.

“Tourism villages should prioritize the distinctiveness of the village, the distinctiveness of its nature, the distinctiveness of its tradition, the distinctiveness of its arts, and all different uniqueness,” he acknowledged.

Iskandar famous that the tourism sector is among the village’s important methods to extend the residents’ revenue, defend the surroundings, and preserve concord locally.

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He emphasised that tourism villages should prioritize sustainable tourism and assist Village Sustainable Improvement Objectives (SDGs) Purpose 9, specifically creating village infrastructure and innovation in accordance with wants.

At Friday’s occasion, a complete of 30 villages have been listed within the high 15 of every class. The 2 classes have been the creating, underdeveloped, and really underdeveloped villages class and unbiased and developed villages class.

On that event, the minister additionally symbolically handed over help of supporting services for the Sensible Village program within the type of a pc set, printer, and supporting funds of Rp20 million (US$1,287), which can be given yearly to the Sensible Village program contributors.

“Tonight, in Sensible Village Part I, 5 villages from Sumbawa District are able to obtain Digital Village group house services, which can be despatched immediately from the manufacturing warehouse to the chosen villages,” he remarked.

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