Dantruong Travel & Tourism

Goddess Tours VILLAGE Village Elves or Pentingsari Umbulharjo, Cangkringan District, Sleman District, DIY increasingly great demand of foreign students who want to feel the beautiful atmosphere of the rural community life.

“We have many foreign students are studying in Yogyakarta at the weekend visited the Tourist Village Goddess of Elves, in addition to travel simultaneously also conduct various activities on offer tourist village manager in the slopes of Mount Merapi,” said Village Manager Marketing Tourism “Goddess of Elves”, Doto Yogantoro, Tuesday (27 / 7).

Average each weekend this region visited about 20 to 50 tourists, most of whom are foreign students or students and students from outside the area.

“Foreign students who are there for the first time to visit, but not the least also have several times visited and stayed in Pentingsari,” he said.

She exemplifies the foreign students who visit the 20 student from Austria, who was studying at the Centre for Asia Pacific Studies (PSAP), Gadjah Mada University (UGM) Yogayakarta on July 19, 2010.

“The tourist village Pentingsari they learn about plantations, coffee management, mushroom cultivation, organic vegetables, handicrafts and natural adventure,” he said.

Then visit of German and Dutch exchange student who joined in the “Summer School Camp, ‘Faculty of Medicine, University of Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta (UMY) at 24 and July 25, 2010.

“The students are very excited to do activity in antaranyacamping, outbound, nature and culinary adventure,” he said.

Doto to say, other than foreign students, foreign students liked the activity area in the village tour as students SMAK Ipeka Pentingsari Sunter, North Jakarta which numbered 430 people will also move in the village to visit and tour Pentingsari 2 to 6 August 2010.

They will stay with the public or staying and staying in the houses of local residents. “Addition social they do will also conduct outbound and learn arts and culture such as gamelan, dance and crafts, ‘she said.

Chief Marketing Office of Culture and Tourism Tourism Sleman District Shavitri Nurmala Goddess said already getting lots of tourists outside the region and abroad who visit the villages of tourism in Sleman.

“This shows that the tourism village in great demand, both domestic and foreign tourists the country to serve as the object of the visit, ‘said

‘This will also give impetus to the local government in facilitating travel to the villages, among them the development of human resources with the management of village tourism materials, culinary, craft and marketing efforts.