[Essay] Appealing Closeness Between Tourism and Information Technology

Indonesia is a beautiful country, which has a lot of adorable places, diversity in historical heritage and many great cultures. To describe Indonesia, Javanese proverbs says “gemah ripah loh jinawi”, it means Indonesia is a rich country where every land has magnificent view and the citizen are wealthy enough. When I was talking with some foreigners, most of them were only know about Bali from Indonesia, they said Indonesia is Bali. Whereas, Bali is one of million beautiful places Indonesia has. From Sabang to Merauke you can dig about their own beauty in detail. Most of them become as tourism places, which influences the growth of economy in Indonesia. We cannot deny that tourism has close relationship with many people in social life. Therefore, tourism is also an important aspect in many countries for increasing foreign exchange revenue. It shows that the number of tourists who comes Indonesia increased significantly from year to year, and Indonesia reached about 8 million international visitors in 2012. It is sufficiently large number of visitor for enjoying Indonesia, especially relishing the wonderful places inside.

Most people agree that the world will not know about the wealth of Indonesian tourism when there is not spread well information. From that reasons, technology is needed for broadcasting the information. Indonesia has huge potential in tourism, and it will produce better when technology is combined. We know that information technology is widely used nowadays and technology is the thing that never being halted immediately, because most of people use it. I feel more fascinating when technology is able to be helpful in people life. As a person who closer with computer, I realise that we need a such thing to work with how to produce the information based on users’ need.

The use of information technology in business area is the things that irrefutable. Based on research from Ministry of Communication and Information in Indonesia, eight big cities in Indonesia, such as Batam, Medan, DKI Jakarta, Bandung, Semarang, Surabaya, Bali apply computer and internet in their company for supporting the potential in the business environment. Most of them are engaged in trading, restaurant and hotel with 32% and 24%, respectively. It shows that Continue reading