Bogor's tourism potential

Bogor's tourism potential

From Merdeka

The epithets of Bogor, 'rain town' and 'gate of West Java',
need 'city of tourism' added to them. The latter epithet may
already be Bogor's but its potential has remained unfulfilled.

As it is, Bogor, with its botanical garden, well-known the
world over, makes hardly any impression on tourists. What we have
is houses pressing against each other, clogged traffic and hot
air. Even the rain is reluctant to fall.

It would be a good thing to plan which sites will be developed
in priority to support Bogor's identity as a tourist city.

Without adequate planning all efforts will be useless and
Bogor will become no more than a ghost town, only a stopping
place from Jakarta to West Java and the opposite direction.

YUDHI DARMADI

Bogor, West Java