Mataram Dispar Beautifies 'Giong Siu' Tourism To Attract Visitors

(ANTARA/HO-Disapar)

NTB - The "Giong Siu" tourist attraction (a thousand swing) in the Babakan area, Sandubaya District is seen as a potential destination. The Mataram City Tourism Office, NTB has also prepared a special budget for tourism arrangement, amounting to Rp. 100 million.

"The arrangement aims to improve the quality of the surrounding environment so that it can attract more visitors," Head of the Mataram City Tourism Office (Dispar) Cahya Samudra in Mataram, was confiscated from Antara Saturday, April 20.

It is said, with the budget, the arrangement will be carried out according to the needs in the field. Some of the needs proposed by the local Tourism Awareness Group (Pokdarwis) are the opening of access roads and parking areas.

The reason is because so far access to the "Giong Siu" tour is currently crossing residential roads or BTN areas so that the value is less representative because it can interfere with the comfort of residential residents.

Therefore, the manager suggested that the city government could open access directly to the forest area of the city of "Giong Siu", in order to make it easier for visitors to enter and exit.

"For the proposed opening of this road access, we will propose it because this program certainly requires a fairly large land acquisition budget," he said.

Meanwhile, for the proposed arrangement of parking areas, said Cahya, it is possible that this year it can be done with the budget that has been prepared so that visitors can be safer and more comfortable while in the area.

"For the additional needs of other facilities, we will hear input from the local Pokdarwis who knows more about the conditions in the field," he said.

To realize the "Giong Siu" tourist attraction as one of the mainstay tourist sites, the Mataram City Government had previously made arrangements by building street vendors and preparing facilities such as swing and tents that visitors could rent.

However, the arrangement of the "Giong Siu" tourist attraction prioritizes natural tourism with the concept of campground, because the area is a city forest.

Therefore, various arrangements for supporting facilities in the area should not be too many permanent buildings so that the function of the city's forest does not disappear.

Therefore, the supporting facilities that may be added for children's rides are increasing the "giong" as the name implies.

"Previously, we had installed 25 swing units and prepared 25 tent units for residents who wanted to 'camp for the ground' managed by local Pokdarwis," he said.