Wednesday, April 1, 2009

The Tourism Village

The Tourism Department of Yogyakarta Province is trying to develop a tourism potential region, one of which is the tourism village. Head of the Tourism Department of Yogyakarta, Tazbir Abdullah said to the Voice of Indonesia in Yogyakarta on Wednesday, to pursue a new tourism in Yogyakarta, Tourism Department introduces the village tourism as a new tourism in Yogja. According to him, the interest of tourists in Yogjakarta keeps increasing every year. He said Jogja Tourism Authority is now focusing to promote our tourism spot, not only conventional tourism spots like Sultan Palace and Prambanan Temple, now we offer more tourism spots like tourist village and activity in the tourism side like cultural festival in the village and then cultural ceremony. Tazbir added, to support the development of tourism in Yogyakarta, the government also continues launching campaign with the media and international institutions to tourism activities in the area. He also said, the number of tourists visiting Yogyakarta is increasing every year, especially tourists from Malaysia and Europe.

(Ani)

Source: www.rri-online.com

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