By Rosli Abidin Yahya
Some 30 students undergoing LCCI
courses of Accounts and Business Studies from Brainwise Quantum
Learning (BQL) School in Gadong will embark on a local field
trip to Temburong on March 27 - a move towards promoting the
Homestay Programme as well as the Student Tourism Programme to
encourage domestic tourism.
The leader of the delegation,
their teacher Ms Clarita Alfonte, regarded the trip as part of a
learning process outside the classroom.
She said the students,
accompanied by five teachers, will be exposed to a variety of
sporting activities such as rafting, canoeing, rope walking and
tug-of-war.
The outdoor activities, she
said, are designed to develop the students so they would be fit
physically and mentally.
"It will be filled with
physical endurance tests, enthusiasm development tests and
sports."
The move by BQL School should
be an inspiration to local tour operators - to focus on domestic
tourism as one of the measures to take in midst of the United
States-led war on Iraq and the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
(SARS) outbreak, observers said.
They said if the domestic
tourism sector is strong and resilient, Brunei Darussalam will
be able to counter the impact of the SARS outbreak and the Iraq
war now affecting the influx of tourists from West and East
Asia.
They said Brunei Darussalam
could be affected in terms of tourism revenue if the war and the
SARS breakout prolonged.
"By providing a homestay
programme, it will generate business for two-star resorts and
below and other small operators.
"Domestic tourism also
plays an important role in the national economy but we need to
find ways to improve its performance," they said.
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