Blue Voices

In the future, specifically for Bali, Signing Blue will increase the number of partnerships. Because in general, the tourism sector is considered to have a lot of attention to human resources owned, helped preserve culture and continue to provide services for tourists to the maximum.

Gerald, Signing Blue Corporate Engagement, said, although in terms of internal management it is already good, there are still important tasks in environmental management. Perpetrators of tourism in Bali are still less responsive to the importance of managing the environment. This is caused by many factors. One of them is local and foreign tourists who are overloaded.

This affects the difficulty of tourist supervision of environmental preservation. For example when diving on the island of Nusa Penida, they accidentally or intentionally do damage to coral reefs. In addition to the lack of knowledge of tourists about environmental conservation at sea, tourism actors also do not provide adequate education related to this matter. So that at one time, coral reefs which should be kept together, become permanently damaged at a certain period of time.

In addition to Nusa Penida Island, Kuta Beach is also one of the points in Bali that experiences over capacity and often occurs before sunset. The number of local and foreign tourists on the beach makes it difficult to control garbage disposal. "As a result, rubbish that is deliberately disposed of or left behind in the sand will be swept away by the waves and become marine trash," Gerald explained.

Signing Blue Will Continue To Add Members To The Tourism Industry Players

Signing Blue in this case moves to encourage tourism actors, the general public, and the traveler to be aware of protecting the marine tourism environment.

If they also have packages for diving and snorkeling, an implementation will be assessed in the field. For example when meeting with animals whether they have followed the correct rules by giving breafing to tourists before diving, because this is so fundamental to be done by members of Signing Blue who have diving packages.

All is done openly and through an assessor. In this case the assessor can be referred to as a third party conducting the assessment, whereas the WWF is only a reviewer. "When all elements needed to become a member of WWF have been fulfilled, it will be declared as a Signing Blue member," explained Gerald.

Assessor, Performance Evaluator for Signing Blue Members

Pariama Hutasoit as assessor of the Signing Blue program is a volunteer who cares about marine tourism in the country. Pariama wants to do more for the country, one of which is to make tourism practitioners concerned about the environment for the sustainability of his business.

According to Pariama, the task of an assessor is to assess the three indicators set. Including marine tourism included in the conservation of marine ecosystems. He said he wanted to encourage others to care about the surrounding environment. "Surely it is equipped with data and accurate evidence to make others join in protecting marine tourism together," he said.