PORTALJABAR, BANDUNG CITY - Acting. The Mayor of Bandung, Bambang Tirtoyuliono, said that the City of Bandung, as a service and tourism city, must always increase its tourism and cultural potential.

Moreover, the city of Bandung now has capable tourist infrastructure plus various events that will be held throughout 2024. Everything has been summarized in the Calendar of Events (COE).

Bambang expressed this when visiting the Bandung City Culture and Tourism Office (2/1/2024).

"We have launched COE, this must be published. We want to attract local and foreign tourists. This COE is interesting," said Bambang.

He also encouraged Disbudpar to work together with Diskominfo to continue to carry out good branding and public communication about the city of Bandung. This is to increase the level of tourist visits to Bandung City.

"We need to be informed about what tourist destination options there are, some people only know about a few destinations. Meanwhile in Bandung there are many, we are trying various potentials to provide one of the tourist destination options," he said.

He gave the example of the Braga area. According to him, Braga must be better organized so that tourists can enjoy it comfortably.

"We all have the desire that one of the tourist destinations is Jalan Braga so that it can be enjoyed by residents of Bandung and outside Bandung. Currently it is full of vehicles. I want Jalan Braga to be enjoyed by pedestrians, not full of vehicles and for this to become a tourist attraction in the city of Bandung. " he said.

Apart from that, said Bambang, cultural potential must also continue to be increased by providing more space for cultural figures.

The city of Bandung has many arts buildings such as the Bandung Creative Hub (BCH), Padepokan Mayang Seni Sunda, Teras Sunda Cibiru and others. Not only that, various parks can also be used as art performance venues.

"We give culture more space to be able to express and provide value to the city of Bandung. We have to create 1200 art environments and 120 masters. There is BCH, Mayang Sunda, how can it be designed so that cultural friends have space to express themselves," he said.

He hopes that improving the quality of tourism and culture can make the city of Bandung better.

"Let's make the vision and mission of the City of Bandung come true and the expectations of the community. Let's be enthusiastic about making it happen and making the City of Bandung even better," he said.

Meanwhile, the Head of the Bandung City Disbudpar, Arief Syaifudin, said that collaboration was the main factor in efforts to increase tourism and cultural potential.

"We will continue to perform optimally, because Bandung has large companies for promotional space. We collaborate with various companies. For example, the Bandung Great Sale with turnover reaching IDR 69 billion," said Arief.

Regarding culture, the Disbudpar is also currently drafting a revision of the Cultural Heritage Regional Regulation to resolve the cultural heritage problem in the city of Bandung.

"We are currently preparing a revision of the regional regulation which hopefully can resolve cultural heritage in the future," he said.