TUBAN —70 tourism stakeholders from Nangroe Aceh Darussalam province (NAD), on the western tip of Sumatra Island, attended a training course on tourism in Bali, recently. They spent a month learning and took on job training on tourism on this paradise island. This was mentioned by Dewi Aminudin, the representative of “Badan Rehabilitasi dan Rekonstruksi” (The board of Rehabilitation and Reconstruction) NAD-Nias in Tuban.
The stakeholders, representative of government offices, tourism associations, university students and local communities, learnt about three different things while in Bali. These were namely capacity building on institution of tourism business; tourist guiding; and home industry in producing souvenirs for supporting tourism industries. The training instructors came from Bali Tourism Board, Bali Government Tourism Office, Bali Government Cultural Office, Research Center for Culture and Tourism of Udayana University, Cooperation Office of Bali Province, Indonesia Tourist Guide Association, Bali Police Office, as well as IT experts.
One training instructor, A. A. Gde Raka Dalem, said that the participants, who came from the area that suffered severely from tsunami disaster a few years ago, had been very serious in taking training materials. “They were also actively asking questions”, he said.
Meanwhile, Dr Ricky Avenzora from the donor institution said that it is expected that the training could broaden participants’ understanding about tourism and when they return to Aceh they will be ready to be tourist guides and will have gotten better networking in tourism businesses. (BTN/028)