Hotels and restaurants get health certificates

Hotels and restaurants get health certificates

JAKARTA (JP): Thirty-six hotels, restaurants and catering services received health certificates from the city administration yesterday.

Fauzy Bowo, the head of the City Tourism Agency, said at the Kartika Chandra Hotel in Jakarta that the certificates, presented by Deputy Governor of Economic Development Tb. Rais, would help boost tourism in the capital.

"We want healthy, clean restaurants and catering services to keep the city attractive to tourists," he said.

Agency records show that 14.17 percent of foreign tourist expenditure and 17.15 percent of local tourist spending in 1994 were on food and beverages.

The city enjoyed Rp 818.9 billion (US$372 million) in food and beverage revenues in 1994.

Fauzy added that restaurants and catering services in the city should try to promote Indonesian foods and beverages.

Officially, Jakarta has 99 certified restaurants, hotels and catering services.

Rais said that the system of certifying hotels, restaurants and catering services, which started in 1993, is part of the administration's efforts to promote a greater public awareness of hygiene.

Criteria

Certification criteria include a sanitary building, equipment and environment as well as healthy workers that maintain a tidy appearance.

In yesterday's ceremony, the deputy governor also awarded special health certificates to the owners of four canteens located in the East and South Jakarta mayoralties, at West Jakarta's Kebon Jeruk public health center and at the Pademangan district head's office in North Jakarta. (29)