Cempaka Culture and Tourism: Jakarta to host tourism summit

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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. …”

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Jakarta to host tourism summit

Mustaqim Adamrah, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

Jakarta is set to host the Jakarta Tourism Summit from Nov. 6 to 9 in conjunction with Jakarta's sister cities.

Governor Fauzi Bowo said Friday the summit was aimed at creating a global tourism network and sharing insights among participating countries.

"We want to learn through the summit what big cities in the world have to improve their tourism sectors," he said at City Hall after a meeting with a number of city officials.

"There will be a Jakarta declaration after the summit concludes."

For the four-day summit, the administration would cooperate with urban tourism networking international organizations.

Those organizations include the Council for Promotion of Tourism In Asia, ASEAN Network of Major Cities 21, Tourist Promotion Organization for Asia Pacific Cities and United Nations World Tourism Organization, according to an official website, http://jts2007.com.

Fauzi said the summit would feature an exhibition and speakers including Indonesian former tourism minister Joop Ave and the secretary general of Tourist Promotion Organization for Asia Pacific Cities.

According to city tourism agency head Yusuf Effendi Pohan, who attended the meeting, nine of the 18 sister cities Jakarta has been engaged with have confirmed their participation.

The confirming sister cities include Turkey's Istanbul, Thailand's Bangkok, Japan's Tokyo, the Netherlands' Rotterdam and South Korea's Seoul.

"Jakarta's tourism sector is still behind other big cities despite the huge potential we have," said Yusuf.

One major obstacle in improving the tourism sector, he said, was the limited budget for promotions which sits at Rp 15 billion (US$1.65 million) this year.

"Ideally, we need at least $10 per tourist arrival for our promotion budget," Yusuf.

"So, we'll need $15 million if we target 1.5 million in tourist arrivals."

The number of tourist arrivals in Jakarta slumped to the lowest point in 1999 to 981,183 as a result of 1998's political and financial crises.

Numbers are slowly rising and figures reached 1,235,514 in 2005 and some 1.24 million last year.

Yusuf said the summit was also meant to show other countries that Jakarta was "conducive".

"Jakarta, which has been a destination for many businesspeople, has the most complete facilities for MICE -- meeting, intensive tour, convention and exhibition -- compared to other cities in Indonesia."

Yusuf said businessmen accounted for 70 percent of a total of 1.24 million in tourist arrivals in Jakarta last year.

"I'm sure this year's figures will surpass last year's as we (have) already recorded some 800,000 in tourist arrivals as of September," he said.

Yusuf said the administration was also targeting a surge in tourist arrivals from India, China and Middle East countries "in years to come, as a long-term consequence of the summit".