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INDONESIA is no longer chasing tourist arrivals, but focuses on encouraging sustainable tourism.
According to the Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy, Sandiaga Uno said the concept of sustainable tourism was carried out as a medium and long term tourism management step.
“In the medium and long term, we are the preferred destination in Southeast Asia for foreign tourists with the concept of quality and sustainable tourism. We will no longer be chasing numbers. Wow, yesterday was wrong after chasing numbers. We are only after quality,” Sandiaga Uno said.
He added that the government wants to change so that destinations in Indonesia are more environmentally friendly. Several ways, including the use of new renewable energy to tour guides that can ensure a zero carbon footprint in every tourism activity.
Meanwhile, for the short term, he said, the government will focus on domestic tourists (domestic tourists) to be able to boost domestic tourism.
Furthermore, Sandiaga Uno admitted that changing the concept of quality and sustainable tourism will also change the concept of tourism that is busy or on a large scale. We want to shift from mass tourism to sustainable tourism and ecotourism. From sea, sun, sand (beach, sun, sand) to sustainability, serenity and spirituality (sustainability, tranquility and spirituality. [photo special]
