TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta: The United Nation’s tourism body has announced its decision to pick Bali to become one of its model for green tourism development. In a visit on Thursday (26/11) by Assistant to the Secretary General of United Nation World Tourism Organization Geoffrey Lipman, to the Bali regional office, the body said Bali had potentials for the green tourism concept.
Through the program UNWTO wil help Bali in solving its tourism problems and promote features of the province. The Green tourism Lipman said was part of the Green economy which should be applied in addressing the natural destruction.
Bali Governor I Made Mangku Pastika said the UN Body has the competence to improve Bali’s image in green tourism but the community have to return to their old concept of nature conservation and agriculture.
Tourism , I Made said, has lured many Balinese to leave agriculture and “The challenge is how to make Balinese farmers become wealthier and modern.”
Non governmental organizations which were invited to the UN presentation doubted the real benefit of the program for Balinese.
Made Suardana from the Wisnu Foundation said regional government should demand more concrete concept and support from the UN fearing that the program will only make Bali as global public relation gimmicks, while the actual task and responsibility will be completely left to the province.
ROFIQI HASAN
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