Tourism training for taxi drivers

Tourism training for taxi drivers

JAKARTA (JP): City Tourism Agency held on Tuesday a training
course for 100 taxi drivers to improve the city's tourism human
resource as well as transportation service.

"Drivers are the first party to deal with tourists when the
latter arrive in our country. It's also the drivers who take
those tourists to places of interest," agency chairman Witjaksono
Moewardi said in a written opening statement, read by agency's
head of tourism information dissemination division, Wahyudiono.

"It means the drivers are the spearheads of the tourism
industry's effort to improve the image of Jakarta," he added.

Witjaksono also said that developing tourism would result in
opening business opportunities as well as providing employment
for residents.

"Tourism is a package of many activities from the time the
tourists arrive here until they leave," he said, citing
transportation, restaurants, hotels and souvenirs as examples.

The training was conducted at Mandala Wisata building on Jl.
Kuningan Barat in South Jakarta.(nvn)