Cempaka Culture and Tourism: Medan residents prefer to spend vacation overseas

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“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Thursday, June 14, 2007

Medan residents prefer to spend vacation overseas

Apriadi Gunawan, The Jakarta Post, Medan

More Medan residents spend their holidays overseas each year than foreign visitors come to the North Sumatra capital, the provincial tourism office has announced.

Office head Henry Hutabarat said Wednesday Medan residents spent tens of billions of rupiah overseas each year, while visitors from Europe vacationing in Medan only spent US$110 per person per day, while Asian tourists only spent $60 per person per day.

Henry said the money spent by Medan residents overseas was not only used for travel purposes but also to seek medical treatment.

"Generally, tourists from Medan use their overseas visits to seek medical treatment, thus spending quite a lot of money," Henry told The Jakarta Post.

Henry said that Malaysia and Singapore were the most preferred destinations by far, mainly due to their proximity and numerous quality hospitals, and also served as jumping-off points for trips to Europe and the United States.

In 2005, 167,000 Medan residents visited Penang, Malaysia, while only 70,000 Malaysian tourists visited Medan in the same year.

Henry said around 100,000 Medan residents visited Singapore in 2006, while only around 10,000 Singaporeans visited the province that year.

Henry said visitors from Europe usually spent their vacation in Bukit Lawang in Langkat regency and Lake Toba in Simalungun, while those from Asian countries often visited Brastagi in Karo regency as well as Lake Toba.

Based on data issued by the North Sumatra Tourism Office, 130,761 foreign visitors spent their holidays in the province in 2006, or an increase of 11.25 percent from the figure in 2005, dominated by European tourists from the Netherlands, Germany, Great Britain and France.

A Medan resident, Walman Sihaloho, 37, said he often visited overseas countries, especially Malaysia, because many tour agencies frequently offered cheap tour packages, citing as an example an agency that recently offered a package tour to Penang for four days with prices starting at Rp 1 million.

"It's dirt cheap, because for only Rp 1 million, we could enjoy a visit to Penang for four days," said Walman, a father of one.

Tourism director at the Malaysian consulate in Medan Noor Azman Samsudin said his country expected the arrival of 2 million visitors from Indonesia this year. He was optimistic the target could be reached.

Noor Azman said the target this year was higher than last years' 1.3 million visitors. He added that Indonesia was ranked third after Singapore and Thailand in terms of tourists visiting the country.