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VOINews, Jakarta - Deputy Speaker of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) Lestari Moerdijat stated that the development of quality tourism, which can encourage national development performance, needs all parties' attention.

"The development of national tourism that is of quality is crucial to be realized to encourage an improvement in the performance of national development," she said, as noted in a written statement received here on Sunday.

She outlined that there are seven issues that need to be resolved in order to build quality tourism in Indonesia as noted by the National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas).

The seven issues comprise declining environmental quality, low-quality tourism destination management, tourism services that are less excellent, and low tourism human resource capacity.

Furthermore, they also include limited land, sea and air travel accessibility; lack of investment in the tourism sector; and minimal disaster preparedness.

According to the MPR deputy speaker, those seven issues must be of concern to policymakers in the tourism sector, as well as several ministries and other institutions.

To this end, she hoped that solid collaboration between ministries and institutions could be realized soon in an effort to attain quality tourism development in the country.

In addition, she noted that policymakers should also encourage several efforts to improve the quality of human resources in the tourism sector.

Moerdijat underscored that the improvement in human resources quality is an essential factor in tourism development which highly involves the social and cultural aspects of tourism destination regions.

Thus, even though several tourism destination regions have not had complete supporting infrastructures, quality human resources could help attract tourists, she added.

"The potential of the national tourism sector must be utilized and improved through various efforts so that it can also support the improvement of the national economic performance," she remarked. (Antaranews)