The award also confirmed Bali as an international class tour, which is able to attract up to 4.92 million foreign tourists (tourists) in a year based on data from the Central Bureau of Statistics 2016.
To become a world-class tourist destination, not as easy as turning a hand. Decades of the Island of the Gods to build tourism and the toughest task is to maintain and increase tourist visits.
Head of Bali Tourism Office, AA Yuniartha during the launch event of the new logo of the tourist destination in Indonesia Sapta Pesona Building, Jakarta, Wednesday (14/6/2017) tells the key to successfully building tourism in Bali.
"Bali is very small, only 5,600 square kilometers, with nine adjacent districts not far away but we make 64 festival activities all over Bali, we are chasing the calendar of event Indonesia and the world," Yuniartha said.
According to the cultural aspect to be the number one tourist attraction visiting Bali. Through a survey, Yuniartha said as many as 65 percent of foreign tourists like culture.
"We pledge ourselves as an environment-based tourism culture since 2013 until 2018 we will build 100 tourist villages," said Yuniartha, adding that the tourism villages, among others, are not the same.
He explained, not merely have to make art performances and invite tourists in the village. From the simplest, like the activities of the people of Bali from start to sleep up can be used as tourist attractions for tourists.
"How do I make tourists do not come once to Bali, by adding the destination is expected to come two to five times, and so on to Bali," said Yuniartha.
The second factor that is important to build tourism, continued Yuniartha, is security, because the conflict area is not sought by tourists.
He also mentioned Bali should not be satisfied in the field of tourism. Must continue to develop tourism also do promotion.
"If we say that Bali is famous, it is not necessary that promotion is wrong, we should not be silent, especially since Menpar is developing ten destinations of 'Bali Baru' I know these ten areas have tremendous strength I say to stakeholders in Bali, Doing something Bali will be abandoned, "added AA Yuniartha. (Kompas)
