Supporting Tourism Villages, Politap's Project-Based Learning Develops e-KTG

Ketapang, 10 October 2022, in the Director's meeting room, a preparatory meeting was held for the launch of tourism villages through the e-KTG (Electronic Ketapang Travel Guide) application. The meeting was attended by the Director of Politap, the Partnership Division, Public Relations, the Information Technology Team, the Ketapang Regency Tourism and Culture Office, and the Ketapang Regency Tourism Awareness Community.

The meeting discussed plans to hold a workshop for village heads, Village-Owned Enterprise managers, and Tourism Awareness Groups (Pokdarwis) across eight villages in Ketapang Regency. According to the Head of Masata Ketapang Regency, Setra Kusumardana, this workshop will produce a draft plan for tourism village management.

Meanwhile, the Director of Politeknik Negeri Ketapang (Ketapang State Polytechnic), Endang Kusmana, stated that his institution is strongly committed to the development of tourism villages as one of the flagship programs at the Politap campus in order to develop vocational education from villages through the preparation of the e-KTG (Electronic Ketapang Travel Guide) application, which will help promote and facilitate the potential of tourism villages to reach a global scale. Endang conveyed that e-KTG is a Project-Based Learning initiative in the Information Technology Study Program at Politeknik Negeri Ketapang, based on information prepared by the Ketapang Regency Tourism Awareness Community (Masata).