Cempaka Culture and Tourism: Jakarta Tourism Agency looks to festivals to help attract tourists

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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. …”

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Jakarta Tourism Agency looks to festivals to help attract tourists

Agnes Winarti, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

The Jakarta Tourism Agency has promised to support annual art and music festivals to lure more domestic and international tourists to the city as part of the Visit Indonesia Year 2008 program.

"We have been supporting the promotion of several annual events held in Jakarta, like the Indonesian Open and the Java Jazz Festival," said the agency's head, Yusuf Effendi Pohan, during a regional conference of the Jakarta chapter of Indonesian Tour and Travel Agencies (ASITA DKI Jakarta) on Monday.

Yusuf said the administration usually supported the annual events by streamlining permit and promotion procedures as well as providing security personnel.

The agency wants to increase foreign tourist numbers by 12 percent this year from last year's 1.2 million foreign visitor arrivals and would like to see a 15 percent increase in domestic tourists on last year's 13 million domestic visitors.

The city administration has been promoting the Enjoy Jakarta program, which promotes the city as destination for meetings, conferences and exhibitions for the past three years.

Newly elected ASITA chairwoman for Jakarta Herna Pruistina Danuningrat said as a metropolis with a high level of human resources, the administration had to be more creative in marketing the capital as a tourist destination.

She said that the administration should shift the focus of its existing tourist attractions from venue-based opportunities like visiting museums, malls or amusement parks to local activities.

"The city has a lot of upsides that media could help sell, such as the festivals ," said Herna.

However, ASITA chairman Ben Sukma, who also attended the conference, said he doubted that festival-based tourism could be successful during the year's national tourism campaign.

He said aside from being a monotonous tourism destination, various glitches hampered tourism services in the city.

He said one problem was that ASITA did not have any tour packages that included the city's festivals.

"The organizers of these events already have their own experts," said Ben.

He added that the central government was yet to offer anything special to tourists in the Visit Indonesia Year program.

"Not even cleaner toilets at the city's Soekarno-Hatta International Airport."

He said government officials had spent too much money on promotion and too little on improving existing services for tourists.(anw)