The series of activities for the event kicked off with the dissemination of information for four villages that was aimed at gauging the potential of local tourism avenues and turning it into tourism products, with good selling points.
"Through this dissemination of information, we want to educate people on the importance of them acknowledging and discovering the potential in their respective villages, so they can become good hosts when they welcome tourists," representative from the Directorate of Tourism Human Resources Development Surana noted in an official statement received on Monday.
Village residents play an important part in tourism development in their villages, and it begins by knowing which potential can be tapped into, he remarked.
Deputy of Resources and Institution at the Tourism and Creative Economy Ministry Martini M. Paham stated that only some villages out of the 7,200 national tourism villages were chosen for the Tourism Awareness Campaign 5.0 Program.
"This program is fully supported by World Bank. Thus, the selected tourism villages must be able to gain the best out of this program," she remarked.
For one day, the program will train the village's tourism business players and stakeholders.
It will be conducted on February 25-26 in the four tourism villages of Treko, Gondang, Pagersari, and Ambartawang in Mungkid Sub-district, Magelang, Central Java.
The four villages have a scenic mountain range speckled with farms and plantations. They also have a water body that could be developed into a tourism destination.
According to the ministry's record, more than 80 of Magelang's 230 attractive tourism spots are nature tourism objects, which are coupled with the aspects of culinary arts and handicrafts.
This year, the Tourism Awareness Campaign covers 90 tourism villages in six areas of priority tourism destinations comprising Lake Toba, Borobudur-Yogyakarta-Prambanan, Bromo-Tengger-Semeru, Lombok, Labuan Bajo, and Wakatobi.
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