REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The government of West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) has continued to increase the number of tourists. They creates Lombok-Sumbawa Cultural Month which will take place from 18 th August to 16th September 2015. This event is expected to increase tourist visits to NTB.

"We keep developing the services of Lombok and Sumbawa tourism. We make variety of events, just like this event," said Head of Culture Tourism Marketing of NTB, Lalo Moh. Faozal, in a press conference of Lombok-Sumbawa Cultural Month 2015 in Sapta Pesona Building, Ministry of Tourism, Central Jakarta, Wednesday (5/8).

In a month, Lombok-Sumbawa Cultural Month will be filled with various events. One of them is the Lombok Sumbawa weaving-week. Weaving was chosen because it is popular in NTB.

"The events will be followed by creative economic exhibition, because that was part of the NTB tourism development," he said.

There will be 24 events during Lombok-Sumbawa Cultural Month. It includes Mataram Carnival, Regional Performing Arts, Cultural Dialogue, NTB literature discussion and performances, folk games (tops, chicken barapan, selodor, peresean), workshops and traditional oral performances, puppet potehi performances, and NTB beauty pageant.

Meanwhile, as the highlight of the event, there will be the annual event, namely Lombok-Sumbawa Pearl Festival 2015. "This festival will be held at the end of the week at Senggigi beach," he added.

Pearl Festival which is held for the fourth time is aimed to promote Lombok and Sumbawa pearl as an international pearl.

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