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SEVERAL tourist villages in Indonesia have won awards from the World Tourism Organization under the auspices of the United Nations, UN Tourism, as “Best Tourism Villages by UN Tourism 2024”, including Jatiluwih Tourism Village, Bali and Wukisari Tourism Village, D.I. Yogyakarta.
The awards were won at the fourth edition of “Best Tourism Villages by UN Tourism 2024” which was held in Columbia, United States on Friday (11/15), 2024.
Minister of Tourism, Widiyanti Putri Wardhana, in her statement in Jakarta, Saturday (11/16/2024), welcomed the awards given by UN Tourism to two Indonesian tourism villages that managed to become part of the 55 Best Tourism Villages by UN Tourism 2024.
The Tourism Village Development Program has been a leading program of the Ministry of Tourism in recent years. This is also in line with the vision of village development as stated in the national priority of the Asta Cita of the Red and White Cabinet.
“I am very proud and optimistic that this award can be an inspiration for other tourism villages in Indonesia to continue to optimize the potential of natural resources, cultural heritage and empowerment of their village communities for more inclusive and sustainable tourism,” Widiyanti affirmed.
The Best Tourism Villages competition is designed to identify pilot villages that have successfully developed tourism by empowering local communities and preserving local traditions and heritage.
Based on data, by 2024, 245 villages will have become members of the Best Tourism Villages network, which is expected to become part of the largest global tourism village network.
The success of Nglanggeran Village in 2021, Penglipuran Village in 2023, and Jatiluwih Tourism Village and Wukisari Tourism Village in 2024 to be awarded as Best Tourism Villages is a form of international recognition of the quality of tourism villages in Indonesia.
“Of course, we should not be complacent with this achievement. We at the Ministry of Tourism will continue to strive to strengthen the tourism village ecosystem in the country through a collective commitment to the advancement of Indonesian tourism,” she noted.
Jatiluwih Tourism Village, Bali and Wukisari Tourism Village, D.I. Yogyakarta were successfully selected from some 260 nominees from more than 60 UN Tourism member countries.
Nominees from Indonesia were selected from tourism villages certified as sustainable in the period 2019 – 2024. Because the certification assessment indicators represent nine areas of evaluation for Best Tourism Villages.
For tourism villages that are not included as Best Tourism Villages, UN Tourism presents a mentoring program in the form of an upgrade program for 20 selected tourism villages. [traveltext.id]
