Kemenpar Set 3 Destinations as Culinary Tour

in #food7 years ago

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Ministry of Tourism (Kemenpar) continues to boost the number of tourist visits to the country. One of them by setting three culinary tourism destinations namely Bali, Bandung and Joglosemar (Yogyakarta, Solo, Semarang).
This way is considered able to preserve the culinary of Indonesia archipelago while increasing the number of tourist visits. Moreover, Indonesia is considered to have great potential in developing gastronomy with the uniqueness and diversity of ethnic and tribal cultures.
"Finally we have three culinary tourism destinations, one Bali, two Bandung, three Joglosemar.
Determination of the three destinations is certainly not without reason but rather based on several feasibility.
Among the products and main attraction, packaging products and events, feasibility of service, environmental feasibility, business feasibility and the role of government in the development of culinary tourism destinations.
"In addition to being rich in culinary also because of the government's commitment to culinary tourism, one of the high criteria is the commitment of the government in addition to its tremendous potential,"

explained the Head of the Acceleration Team for Wista Culinary and Shopping Destination, Vita Datau. As is known, culinary tourism has great economic potential. This shows that Indonesian culinary can be one of the driving factors of the people's economy.

While previously, Kemenpar has set five regional foods as national food that is rendang, soto, fried rice, satay and gado-gado. "Culinary tourism is expected to become the main element as a series of tours, given the tourism that becomes the gateway and the image of Indonesian tourism," he said.