Sandiaga Uno Targets Labuan Bajo to be fully operational in 2024

Illustration. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy Sandiaga Uno is targeting the development and arrangement of the area as well as the infrastructure of the Labuan Bajo super priority tourist destination to be ready to operate in 2024 so as to boost the number of tourist visits.

"We are ready to take off from quantity to quality tourism and later the target is 1.5 million tourist visits per year," said Sandiaga in The Weekly Brief with Sandi Uno at the Kemenparekraf Building, Jakarta, quoted from Antara, Tuesday, November 1.

He also said that facilities in the form of an airport have also been built, and flight routes will also be expanded by opening international flights, namely from Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Australia in the near future.

The government has disbursed IDR 4 trillion as an initial investment in structuring the Labuan Bajo area which will become a destination by carrying out the concept of meetings, incentives, conventions, and exhibitions (MICE) activities.

In the future, the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy will also develop youth tourism, special interest tourism and become a destination with an economic circle by ensuring green tourism and eco tourism through the use of new and renewable energy to support medical tourism (health tourism).

Meanwhile, the President Director of the Labuan Bajo Tourism Authority, Shana Fatina Sukarsono, who was present online, conveyed a number of things related to the implementation of the IFG Labuan Bajo Marathon 2022 on Saturday (29/10) in West Manggarai, NTT, with 1,200 participants.

"For creative and creative actors related to the IFG Labuan Bajo Marathon, we are very happy and we plan to make this an annual event by IFG friends, the West Manggarai Regency Government, and the Labuan Bajo Regency Government with us in coordination," he said.

Shana Fatina Sukarsono said that the activity, which is planned to become Labuan Bajo's annual sport tourism, will present collaborative activities for integrated waste management so that Labuan Bajo can be made beautiful and safe, as is its mission in creating quality destinations.

She said that his party will also pamper travelers through a travel package that is integrated with the IFG Labuan Bajo Marathon so that tourists will not only participate in long-distance running, but can also taste other Labuan Bajo destinations.