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By APD writer Maverick
**JAKARTA, Jan. 28 (APD) ** – Indonesia seized three of total six awards contended in the recent annual Southeast Asia’s region tourism award of ASEANTA (ASEAN Tourism Association) held in Thailand’s Chiang Mai.
The annual event is a prestigious Southeast Asia regional tourism competition that assesses best tourism spots, activities and related businesses among ten ASEAN member countries.
“These awards have elevated our 3 Cs, comprised of confidence, credibility and calibration that showing our level in global as well as regional tourism competition. We apparently still capable to compete,” Indonesia Tourism Minister Arief Yahya said in his remarks to receive the awards held during the closing ceremony of ASEAN Tourism Forum in a Chiang Mai lavish hotel on Friday.
The three ASEANTA awards obtained by Indonesia during the event were for categories of Best ASEAN Tourism Photo, Best ASEAN Tourism Attraction and Best ASEAN Airline Program, according to a statement released by the tourism ministry.
The awards for those three categories went to tourism-themed photo entitled “Melasti Ceremony”, sand dune surfing attraction in Indonesia’s Yogyakarta beach and state-run airline Garuda Indonesia’s holiday program of Ayo Liburan.
Besides those three awards, dozens of Indonesia’s hotels, hospitality facilities and tourism spots also won awards in several categories of Hotel Standard Award, MICE (Meetings Incentives, Convention and Exhibition) Standard Venues Award, Clean Tourist City Standard and Sustainable Standard Award.
The Indonesian hotels that received the awards were Hyatt Regency Yogyakarta, Prime Plaza Hotel, The Dharmawangsa Jakarta, Melia Purosani Yogyakarta and Turi Beach Resort Batam.
Meanwhile, the Indonesia’s MICE venues seized the regional award for their category were Bali Nusa Dua Hotel, Raffles Jakarta, Four Season Hotel Jakarta, The Trans Resort Bali and Ayana Midplaza Jakarta.
Three Indonesian cities of Bandung, Banyuwangi and Surabaya won the region’s cleanest tourism city award, while the tourism village of Nglanggeran in Yogyakarta and the Nusa Dua Bali won the tourism sustainable awards.
(ASIA PACIFIC DAILY)
