White sand beach that is beautiful is one of the Mecca waves in Indonesia. Indian Ocean coast in distance is about 37 km from Dompu and has a modis lodging for visitors.
A quiet beach with white sand that is located in the beautiful bay Bima with a beautiful small island called Pulau Kambing. with a fish pond and groso trees growing along the coast. That place is popular recreation for local residents.
Sumowono, The Tourism Destination
Bandungan is the famous destination tourism for people in Semarang. Fresh air, cold weather and also good view be a reason for many people come to this place. Beside Bandungan there is a small town that also attracted as a tourism destination,i t is Sumowono, the next town after Bandungan.
Medini is the tea plantation that located in Sumowono. This place be attractive for many people because it’s view. We can walk along the street between tea plantation while enjoy good view that offer by the medini’s nature.
Most people in Sumowono are farmer and a little bit of them are trader. We can get from there the best fruit quality and also the fresh kale. It’s all the produce from The Sumowono’s farmer. The agriculture product from sumowono are always packed to the other place for example to Semarang, Surabaya, Jakarta, even to outside of Java like to Kalimantan and the other place.
We will find the rabbit farm in Sumowono. It’s be a mainstay for many people in Sumowono. The rabbit from Sumowono are well known too by many people from other city. This farm be a destination for local tourist especially the children.
The local government try to develop this town through some policy as well as in the farming sector and also the tourism sector. Sumowono be the alternative street to reach Temanggung , Kendal and Semarang. Please come to Sumowono when you visit Bandungan and enjoy it!!
Discount for Asean Tourists
Ministers of tourism to the ASEAN annual meeting in the ASEAN Tourism Forum (ATF) in Hanoi, Vietnam, agreed to give incentives to the countries of tourists who visit the ASEAN tourism to ASEAN-10 countries.
Incentives in the form of price relief to rate hotels, restaurants, and transportation. Incentives for ASEAN tourists will be given for two years, ie 2009-2010. The goal is to give impetus to the growth of ASEAN tourism.
Said Minister of Culture and Tourism Jero Wacik time to give explanations on the results of a meeting of tourism ministers of ASEAN, after attending the gala dinner at the ATF 2009 Grand Ballroom Melia Hotel, Hanoi, Vietnam, Thursday (8 / 1) night. "They agreed in the council with the idea that Indonesia ASEAN can be a major tourism market, by providing incentives for ASEAN tourists visit. How the amount of incentive is given, it will still be discussed," said Jero.
According Jero, "So, if people have come Malaysia to Indonesia, they will get a discount rate hotels and restaurants as long as the price indicates passport Malaysia. So also the origin of ASEAN tourists to Indonesia and other ASEAN countries."
Incentives for ASEAN tourists, Jero said, applied for two years, including this year and next year. "This is in accordance with the impact of global financial crisis that is estimated to take place this year and next year," he added.
Jero insenstif itself does not mention what the service will received by hotels, restaurants, and if the airline must provide price relief for ASEAN tourists. "Market for ASEAN tourism visits actually very high. Calculations in earlier hearings, the number reaches around 58 million tourists visit the ASEAN. This year, the new total reached 27 million tourists visit the ASEAN. Indonesia years ago a new 6.4 million tourist visits," said Jero .
Jero said, the results of tourism ministers of ASEAN will be followed up again at the head of the ASEAN countries will make the meeting a few days longer in the KTT ASEAN in Bangkok, Thailand, 2009.
Australian tourists to Bali rose 56.80 Percent
Visiting Australian tourists to Bali during the period of January-November 2008 there were as many as 286,998 people or 15.72 percent of total visitors.
"The visit of tourists has increased Australia's most high, that is 56.80 percent compared with the 10 countries that currently supply most tourists to Bali," said Head of the Central Statistics (BPS) Provinsi Bali Ida Komang Wisnu in Denpasar, on Tuesday (6 / 1 ).
He said, tourists visit the home of kangaroos during the month of November 2008 as many as 183,033 people or 56.80 percent increase compared with the same month in 2007.
Australia ranks second to Japan after the citizens most holiday to Bali. From the 10 countries that most people visiting Pulau Dewata, Japan ranks top with a visit as much as 338,003 people or 18.52 percent of the total tourists to Bali. Following South Korea, after Australia, ranks third with 124,098 people (6.80 percent), Taiwan 120,810 people (6.62 percent), China and 118,665 people (6.50 percent).
Meanwhile, the people of Malaysia to Bali recorded 113,409 people, or 6.21 percent of the number of visits to Bali , Germany, 77,316 people (4.24 percent), UK 77,316 people (4.24 percent), France 71,788 people (3, 93 percent), United States 61,770 people (3.38 percent), and other countries 436,977 people (23.94 percent).
"From the 10 countries that supply most tourists to Bali, almost everything has increased, except Taiwan which came down 8.61 percent and the increase in most of Australia is a high 56.80 percent," said Ida Komang Wisnu.
