As we can see, East Java is a name of province which has many tourism
destinations that could be a pride for society. Many of them become popular
spot for tourists to spend their holiday. In another hand, many of them still
becoming “Hidden Paradise”. The citizens also being friendly and welcoming to
all travelers who visit East Java, they get many advantages in terms of economy
development by selling souvenirs, renting tourism facility and so on. Because
of these great potentials, many of them are well-known as the spectacular
tourism destinations so that the tourism sector becomes the 3rd
biggest income for East Java. But if we can see the value of travelers
themselves is still in the lack condition compare with other province in Java,
even though government has provided several of proper policy just like
providing hotel and resort area for the traveler’s comfortableness, place
conservations against injury and also intensive treatment to the tourism place
in order to keep it safely. Actually we have a power to increase more tourist
number if we know what we’ve been missed. We still forgot what was actually the
most important things to increase more number of tourists. Those are
promotional system and infrastructure development.
The
first thing is Promotional System, how we could promote the tourism place well
and clearly to the tourists worldwide. Within the globalization time which
makes the information’s existence is getting necessary, many people are using
tool to broadcast their public information to the world that we call it
website. When someone, especially traveler wants to look at the information
related to the places they need. They
also want to see the complete info so that their journey will be guaranteed and
they will come there without doubt of being lost or something like that. The
point is, a tourist definitely seeks for complete information before they come
to destination they want. So as far as we’ve been looking, there is no certain
website which provides most complete and comprehensive information, even the
official site of the East Java’s Government of Tourism itself. A proper and
meaningful tourism website must contains of knowledge of accommodations (the
price of each hotel, each room type, complete address, how to get onto the
hotel) and also Full Information about the destinations (History,
rules/regulations, price of entrance, what we can do here, how to get in),
embassy of each region (if available), and Emergency call. Until now, website
which contains East Java’s destinations hasn’t provided it yet. Meanwhile we
know that Website at the present is becoming a portal for tourist to come to
East Java. Travelers who might have planned to go to Papuma beach, for example.
They’ll rather to cancel it because no certain info that exist. So it is very
crucial to be solved.
Second,
good tourism destination surely has developed infrastructures like public
transportation which cheap, easy to find, fast, and the most important; it
could connect all of entire tourism places in our territory. So the traveler is
not necessary to transit with other form of transportation. In addition it will
harm their budget and wasting their time to explore more places. Besides that,
we have also duty to provide stronger security to those public transportations
as well.
Basically,
the function of tourism is for extending the society economical, giving foreign
exchanges to the region involved, and promoting particular territory as the
popular destinations worldwide. These are the great benefits for us if we can
develop tourism well. So with the complete info and developed infrastructure,
undoubtedly the traveler will come without worry the lack of information. It
will contribute more foreign exchange, promote East Java, and economical
welfare can be perceived by entire citizens. That’s what we called as
“Developing East Java’s Tourism”
