IMPROVING INDONESIA TOURISM

For four years, Indonesia has sent its representative in miss universe contest. There are some people who pro and contra about it. The pro said that the advantage by following miss univese is for improving Indonesia tourism. Is it true? Actually, there are three important aspects for increasing tourism in Indonesia; transportation, security, and hotel service.

Lack of safe, comfortable, and cheap transportation in Indonesia make tourists averse to come her. The case of tourist who was robbed in taxi is one of example how not safe our transportation is, only a few of taxi agency who are safe; More over, Most of our public transportation is not comfortable such as metro mini, train etc. If the tourist want to have good transportation they have to cost a lot of money for paying private bus, and taxi because there are a few good public transportation that Indonesia goverment provided. Traffic jam as a major problem also has to be solved to make tourists feel comfortable. So Goverment should increase the number of cheap, safe, and comfortable public trasportations in Indonesia.

Other way, Increasing the security in Indonesia will make tourist feel safe. A few month ago, bomb tragedy happened in Kuningan, Jakarta which had made Liverpool, a international football team cancelled their plans to play in Indonesia; futhermore, bomb tragedy in Bali which happened twice had made Australia, USA and other countries giving travell warning to Indonesia at that time. All of that tragedy had decreased the number of tourist who came to Indonesia because of that, Polices should adding their personils in strategic areas such as mall, reacreation places, hotels etc. Besides that. the skills of police personils have to be improved for securing and security facilities should be better. By increasing personils, skill and security facilities the tourists will feel safe when they travel to Indonesia.

Hotel as accomodation facility has to be improved its service to make tourist feel happy when they stay in Indonesia. Each hotels in Indonesia have to have standard services according the International standard services so, when tourists come to Indonesia they will served as same as king and queen. Beside that the hotels also have to have unique characteristic which different with other hotels in the world, it could be from the building style, facilities etc. By improving hotel service in Indonesia the tourist will feel happy to come here.

We have seen that our tourism is not well yet, so it has to be improved by looking after the transportation, security, and hotel service aspects. If this trend continues, more and more tourists will come to enjoy Indonesia.