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Gili Terawangan Many Tourists Visited Print E-mail
Monday, 22 September 2008
Tourism object or Gili Island Small Terawangan in West Lombok regency, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) most visited tourist crowd reached 40 thousand people per tahun.Image Alt "while two other Gili, namely Gili Air Gili meno and visited approximately 20 thousand tourists per year , "said the Head Office of Tourism, Arts and Culture West Lombok, Tjok Sutendrarai in Mataram.

Gili Trawangan with a new approximately 338 hectares to be developed into tourist objects in the 1980s, and on tour with the charming beaches and parks under the sea.

Gili Terawangan even in there coral blue, which is the only one in Indonesia, even in the world where there are two coral blue, ie, d and Karabia Gili Terawangan.

In developing Gili Terawangan as tourist destination, the government of West Lombok regency take community-based development policy.

Only local investors allowed to open a business here, and all the cottage class lodging shaped jasmine and there can be no star hotel.

Number of lodging rooms available with about 700 rooms per night rates vary between 35 thousand to one million rupiah where every cottage in this place offers equipment for snorkeling dive scenic parks along the sea coast.

Office of Culture and Tourism (Disbudpar) NTB akan build jetty (pier) for a yacht (boat persiar) who recently visited the bustling tourism object to these three.

Head of Sub Office (Kasubdin) Marketing Office of Culture and Tourism NTB, Muhamad Mahdi, said, three dock jetty will be built with the budget and state budget funds from the budget in 2008.

"With a special dock that, hopefully more and more tourists will come, so that gives additional revenue for the merchant community souvenirs in the area," he said.

Development in three Gili jetty is directly related to the national effort menyukseskan Visit Indonesia program in 2008 and the target number of tourists visit as many as 600,000 people.

Therefore, since the beginning of January until now NTB incentive to perform a variety of events that are believed to encompass domestic tourists and foreign tourists.

Interesting program that will be performed in the near future to give VIY 2008 Festival is Nyalle and Senggigi Festival. In addition, the promotion of tourism attractions in NTB incentive also made both in and outside the country.

"While the visits of tourists to the NTB in 2007 reached 447,905 persons, an increase compared with the year 2006 as many as 426,544 people this year and this year the target foreign tourists as much as 250 thousand people," he said.