Lintas Sumbar - Deputy Governour of West Sumatra Nasrul Abit
launches Branding Traveling of Solok Selatan District "Heart of
Minangkabau" (Solok Selatan is the heart of Minangkabau tourism). There
is additional financing for construction of Rumah Gadang Area which was
initially assisted by Rp. 100 Billion to Rp. 143 Billion from the
President of Indonesia Joko Widodo.
This was conveyed by Vice Governour of West Sumatra Nasrul Abit in his
speech of Launching Destination Branding Solok Selatan event, and
signing MoU Pemkab Solok Selatan with PT Inna Muaro in promotion of the
gadang home area at Grand Inna Muara Hotel Padang, Thursday (29/3/2028)
In this occasion is attending by Regent Muzni Zakaria, Director of Inna
Muara, Sekdakab, Head of OPD environment Solkel regency, travel and
also tourism figures of West Sumatra.
Furthermore, Vice Governour Nasrul Abit conveyed that we are happy that
South Solok regency is running fast to establish the "Heart of
Minangkabau" branding, which in West Sumatera has been set with "Taste
Of Padang" and national is "Wonderful Indonesia".
When we push the growth of tourist visits to West Sumatra, the issue of
disagreement about "Taste Of Padang" is hope not to be problem anymore.
Let us together advance West Sumatra tourism, there is beauty, sense of
security, sense of comfort, cool taste with a variety of culinary,
actractions and souvenirs.
We must prepare all of it together and create a good tour that will be a
big impact for the growth of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) which
leads to improving people's welfare.
Unfortunately there is no concrete data about the number of visits which
is have correlation to the addition of minimum welfare in the location
of tourism. We need to prove this data so that tourism activities give a
good impact for thw progress of regional development, said Nasrul Abit.
Vice Governour Nasrul Abit also said that the number of flights increase
in significantly, in 2016 there was an increase of 2.5 million flights
with a flight capacity of 2.8 million flights per year.
The year 2017 increased to reach 3.9 million flights and Angkasa Pura
promise to increase the number of flight capacity to 5.2 million flights
a year.
From the number of flights currently are predicted the number of tourism
activities reaches 60-70 percents of the amount available. It just how
the district manages the tourists to stay in the area in directly to the
community or not.
Congratulations to South Solok as "heart of minangkabau" of minangkabau
tourism, hopefully able to provide an interesting destination area which
are to be visited by everyone and become the best, said Vice Governour
Nasrul Abit proud.
Regent of South Solok, H.Muzni Zakaria
expressed his deep gratitude to Group Hotel Indonesia Natour who has
expressed readiness to help promote South Solok tourism, especially
Saribu Rumah Gadang tourism. "Hopefully more widely known with this
cooperation," explained Muzni.
Muzni said that SRG has received direct attention from the President of
the Republic of Indonesia in the form of revitalization assistance worth
Hundreds of Billion more, then it is our duty to welcome it and have
to participate as same as the President's attention
Tourism sector according to Muzni will help accelerate people's welfare.
Moreover, south Solok known as _Unlimited Tourism_ its with so many
attractions. There are Saribu Rumah Gadang (SRG), Batu Kapal Cave,
Dozens of Waterfall Waterfall, Climbing Mount Kerinci *, and many others
"And Saribu Rumah Gadang is the entrance to other Tourism Objects in
South Solok," he explained
Meanwhile, Director of Hotel Indonesia Natour, Iswandi Said stated ready
to cooperate to promote various tourism object in South Solok. "We have
48 hotels in Indonesia Grand Inna Padang is one of them, the largest
_convention center_ in West Sumatera that is able to accommodate. Rel