Tourism training for taxi drivers<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): City Tourism Agency held on Tuesday a training
\ncourse for 100 taxi drivers to improve the city's tourism human
\nresource as well as transportation service.<\/p>\n
\"Drivers are the first party to deal with tourists when the
\nlatter arrive in our country. It's also the drivers who take
\nthose tourists to places of interest,\" agency chairman Witjaksono
\nMoewardi said in a written opening statement, read by agency's
\nhead of tourism information dissemination division, Wahyudiono.<\/p>\n
\"It means the drivers are the spearheads of the tourism
\nindustry's effort to improve the image of Jakarta,\" he added.<\/p>\n
Witjaksono also said that developing tourism would result in
\nopening business opportunities as well as providing employment
\nfor residents.<\/p>\n
\"Tourism is a package of many activities from the time the
\ntourists arrive here until they leave,\" he said, citing
\ntransportation, restaurants, hotels and souvenirs as examples.<\/p>\n
The training was conducted at Mandala Wisata building on Jl.
\nKuningan Barat in South Jakarta.(nvn)<\/p>",
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