Jakarta (ANTARA) – Deputy Speaker of the People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR) Lestari Moerdijat stated that the development of quality tourism, which can encourage national development performance, needs all parties’ attention.”The development of national tourism that is of quality is crucial to be realized to encourage an improvement in the performance of national development,” she said, as noted in a written statement received here on Sunday. She outlined that there are seven issues that need to be resolved in order to build quality tourism in Indonesia as noted by the National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas). The seven issues comprise declining environmental quality, low-quality tourism destination management, tourism services that are less excellent, and low tourism human resource capacity. Furthermore, they also include limited land, sea and air travel accessibility; lack of investment in the tourism sector; and minimal disaster preparedness.

Source: Antara News Agency