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Paragliding in Batu - Malang
Paragliding sport which can only be enjoyed by certain circles, this time to be one potential vehicle for tourism in Batu, East Java, which can be enjoyed by all people, including the general public who want to test your nerve.
Chairman of the Executive Branch (Pengcab) Federation of Aero Sport All Indonesia (FASI) in Batu Imron Solihin, Tuesday (29 / 1), recognizes, as a new vehicle and the potential to be enjoyed by the wider community, sports paragliding still need improvement and serious attention, particularly infrastructure and backup facilities to locations.
"Moreover, taking paragliding landing area at Mount Many become one seed in the East Java program Visit Indonesia Year 2008, the infrastructure and support facilities should be worked on seriously," he said
The present condition is still not adequate, such as parking lots, public facilities such as toilets, as well as other supporting facilities.
To popularize the new tourism potential, he said, it also took the Association of Indonesian Hotels and Restaurants (PHRI), in order to be promoted and become a tourism package that can be offered to hotel guests who travel to Kota Batu.
Technically, a former gym teacher said that, people who want to enjoy the panoramic view and the beauty of Batu through paragliding, both individuals and groups can directly into the FASI and to bear the cost of Rp250 thousand for all flying, including equipment and accompanied by a professional athlete as a tandem paragliding .
Responding to inadequate public facilities as a support for paragliding tours, the Head of Division (Head) Marketing Selfianingsih Batu Tourism Office said it shared the relevant organizations involving FASI and PHRI soon to discuss coordinating the development of paragliding in the area of tourism.
He argues, in the near term but said it would discuss with the parties continuously Perhutani or Forest Service of Malang Regency, for paragliding at Mount Many locations across the region of Malang regency which will be the main route to the location.
"Honestly, now that we are still awaiting ratification in 2008 budget year, although we've made the program, including for the development and addition of facilities at tourist sites paragliding, we still 'road in place' if the budget does not exist,