UNWTO launches new energy efficiency project in Indonesia
UNWTO and the Indonesian Ministry of Culture and Tourism (MoCT) have launched a new energy efficiency project in Indonesia. The project, “Sustainable Tourism through Energy Efficiency with Adaptation and Mitigation Measures in Pangandaran” (STREAM), aims to serve as a model of innovative climate change mitigation and adaptation measures in tourism destinations in Indonesia and South-East Asia.
The project will implement climate change mitigation and adaptation measures in Pangandaran – a popular tourism destination in Java, Indonesia – adopting an energy efficiency approach, while strengthening local structures for the long-term success of the destination. Measures include seminars and workshops to increase the knowledge and capacity of local tourism stakeholders; applying energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies in hotels and public buildings; low-carbon tourism planning tools; and adaptation measures such as the rehabilitation of mangroves and coral reefs which naturally capture and store carbon emissions.
As such, the project will significantly increase the climate change resilience of Pangandaran and the competitiveness of its tourism sector, thereby serving as a model for other destinations in Indonesia and South-East Asia.
“This project is a clear example that the tourism sector is taking its responsibility to contribute to the reduction of global greenhouse gases emission and climate change adaptation seriously”, said UNWTO Secretary-General, Taleb Rifai.
The Indonesian Minister of Culture and Tourism, Jero Wacik, stressed the importance of local initiatives as a step towards national policy on climate change mitigation, adaptation and tourism development. “We are happy to cooperate with UNWTO in this project as its activities represent strategic development steps for Indonesia and its tourism sector, in line with our four-pronged strategy – pro-growth, pro-job, pro-poor, and pro-environment”, he said.
The “Sustainable Tourism through Energy Efficiency with Adaptation and Mitigation Measures in Pangandaran” project is part of the International Climate Initiative of the German Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety.
The official presentation was held in Jakarta, Indonesia, at an event attended by the UNWTO Secretary-General, the Indonesian Minister of Culture and Tourism, representatives from other Ministries, representatives from the West Java province and the Ciamis district, and tourism associations. The event coincided with the presence in Jakarta of the UNWTO Secretary-General to participate in the World Economic Forum on East Asia 2011.
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As such, the project will significantly increase the climate change resilience of Pangandaran and the competitiveness of its tourism sector, thereby serving as a model for other destinations in Indonesia and South-East Asia.
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Laos Tourism turns rising star after first tourism event | TripHole
Southeast Asia Travel Tips – Laos Tourism: PAKSE, LAOS The southernmost Laotian province of Champassak raised its profile on the tourism map of the Greater Mekong Subregion by holding a successful 12th Mekong Tourism Forum (MTF) here last week.
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The first international tourism event to be held here, the MTF will boost traffic along the East-West and North-South corridors of the Asian Highway, as well as to the Northeast Thailand, especially the neighbouring cross-border province of Ubon Ratchathani.
It will also help boost Champassak’s share of the landlocked country’s rapidly growing visitor numbers which have tended mainly to flock to the capital Vientiane or the northern heritage town of Luang Prabang.
About 300 delegates from around the world attended the MTF, including tour operators, media and several consultants and representatives of international aid agencies.
Since being held for the first time in Bangkok in 1996, the MTF has made the rounds of the primary hub cities of Thailand, Cambodia, Burma, Laos, Vietnam and Yunnan province of Southern China.
It is now being held in the region’s secondary cities, with Siem Reap playing host in 2010 and Chiang Rai in 2012.
The MTF is a successful product of many years of efforts in the 1990s by the Asian Development Bank, the Pacific Asia Travel Association, the UN World Tourism Organisation and the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific.
Although the UNWTO is no longer involved and UNESCAP shut down its tourism unit in 2007, their years of painstaking efforts to build upon the opening of the first Thai-Lao Friendship bridge in 1994 and create tourism infrastructure, ease facilitation and establish transport linkages are bearing fruit today.
Visitors to Laos have surged from 700,000 in 2000 to 2.5 million in 2010, generating US$381 million.
Arrivals in the first three months of 2011 were up 20% over the same period last year.
A major conduit has been the construction of the 1,380-metre Lao-Japan bridge across the Mekong river. Champassak is located at the crossroads between north-south Route 13 and east-west highways connecting Pakse with Ubon, as well as the southern provinces of Salavan, Xekong and Attapeu.
The province is also home to Vat Phou, an ancient temple that was declared the second UNESCO World Heritage site in Laos. A huge tourist attraction is the annual three-day festival held there on the full-moon day of the third month of the lunar calendar.
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