Festival Pesona Gandoriah Pariaman conducts eight competitions in this year

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Festival Pesona Gandoriah Pariaman conducts eight competitions in this year

Pesona Gandoriah Festival Brochure 2019. (ist)

Pariaman (ANTARA) - The Goverment of Pariaman, West Sumatra, will hold Festival Pesona Gandoriah on June 29 to July 3, 2019 by presenting eight types of competitions that can attract tourists to visit the area.

"Eight competitions are namely the Satay Pariaman culinary festival, concrete canoe competition, randai, tourist photos, Monkey climbs coconut, children's creativity, Gandoriah fiesta, and Minang songs," said Head of Tourism Promotion and Cooperation Kota Pariaman Anwar Tourism and Culture Office in Pariaman, on Friday.

He said that for this year's festival held at Pantai Gandoriah, the total prizes provided for the eight competitions reached IDR 100 million.

"The competition that we hold at this festival is a Minangkabau culture in general, and there is also a special culture of Pariaman," he said.

The festival is one of the efforts of the Pariaman City Government to attract visiting tourists to Pariaman, and to improve the economy of business people in the area.

Not only to increase tourist visits, it also seeks to preserve culture and increase the creativity of the younger generation in the area.

Anwar said that until now many parties from various regions in West Sumatra had registered as participants for a number of competitions held at the festival.

At the beginning of the festival this was called the Festival Pesisir, then the name was changed in 2016 with the Festival Pesona Gandoriah.

"At the first festival, Pariaman got the MURI record about cooking the most sala lauak," he said.

He hopes that with the implementation of the festival, Pariaman tourism will be known by the community, so that increasing the number of tourist visits to the area. (*)

Editor: Mutiara Ramadhani

Internship student of ANTARA SUMBAR 2019