experience of tourism

first settlement of ethnic-Chinese civilization in Tangerang through the iconic Chinese-style ancient house designed with low-curving sloped roofs in the midst of Pasar Lama traditional market named Benteng Heritage Museum, the first Chinese-Indonesian heritage museum in Indonesia.

As independence day is considered one of National holidays, you will only see dead silence of this market with no purchasing-and-bargaining transaction. Instead, scattered trashes, frowsy tends along the street and malodorous smell are the things you can witness if wandering down to the center of Pasar Lama traditional market on August 17. You only can go on foot if having a plan to visit Benteng Heritage Museum.

The more you stroll around, the more vivid you will find this museum that is believed to be exist in around 17th century, still with its Chinese ancient temple-like buildings. Most importantly, you can see Indonesia’s national flag dangling towards the skylight above, indicating that ethnic-Chinese community is the part of Indonesia as stated in Bhinekka Tunggal Ika.

Its beautiful first-floor terrace facing the life of the street in Pasar Lama traditional market simply makes this museum become an example of the 17th century Chinese-style house in Tangerang. If going inside the museum, you will see such cultural blends between Chinese and Indonesian through its architectural construction on the first floor named gerbang bulan or moon gate completed with old photographs about Tionghoa life and festivals in Tangerang called Peh Cun.

Ethnic-Chinese community in Tangerang is often referred as Cina Benteng, meaning ‘the Chinese of the fort’€, a name derived from Tangerang and the bend in the Cisadane River becoming the site of a Dutch fort in the 17th century. Besides, some of them called themselves as Hitachi (Hitam Tapi Cina), a term to describe the physical feature of Chinese people in Tangerang who share the black skin just like local Indonesians.

If you walk further around 300 meters and turn right, you will see Boen Tek Bio, one of the ancient Buddhist temples where incense still smolders. Unfortunately, we cannot explore further the temple as there are many people who pay a visit to pray for Gods.

Types of Tourism

1. Adventure Tourism

 a type of tourism involving travel to remote or exotic locations in order to take part in physically challenging outdoor activities. Mountaineering expeditions, trekking, bungee jumping, rafting and rock climbing are frequently cited as an examples of adventure tourism.

2. Cultural Tourism

Cultural Tourism is the subset of tourism concerned with a country or region's culture, specifically the lifestyle of the people in those geographical areas, the history of those people, their art, architecture, religion(s), and other elements that helped shape their way of life.

3. Ecotourism

tourism directed toward exotic, often threatened, natural environments, especially to support conservation efforts and observe wildlife. A responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment, sustains the well-being of the local people, and involves interpretation and education.

4. Business Tourism

Business tourism is a more limited and focused subset of regular tourism. During business tourism (traveling), individuals are still working and being paid, but are doing so away from both their workplace and home. Some definitions of tourism tend to exclude business travel.

5. Educational Tourism

Educational tourism is one of the fastest growing areas of the travel and tourism and one that is too often overlooked by tourism professionals and marketers, focused on the development of the educational institution to make it a tourist destination.

6. Space Tourism

Space Tourism is the term that's come to be used to mean ordinary members of the public buying tickets to travel to space and back the practice of traveling into space for recreational purposes.

7. Religious Tourism

Religious tourism, also commonly referred to as faith tourism, is a type of tourism, where people travel individually or in groups for pilgrimage, missionary, or leisure (fellowship) purposes. The world's largest form of mass religious tourism takes place at the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

8. Medical Tourism

Medical tourism refers to people traveling to a country other than their own to obtain medical treatment. In the past this usually referred to those who traveled from less-developed countries to major medical centers in highly developed countries for treatment unavailable at home.However, in recent years it may equally refer to those from developed countries who travel to third-world countries for lower priced medical treatments.

9. Geotourism

Tourism that sustains or enhances the geographical character of a place — its environment, heritage, aesthetics, culture, and the well-being of its residents.

10. Sports Tourism

Sports tourism refers to travel which involves either observing or participating in a sporting event staying apart from their usual environment. Sport tourism is a fast-growing sector of the global travel industry and equates to $7.68 billion.There are several classifications on sport tourism. Gammon and Robinson suggested that the sports tourism are defined as Hard Sports Tourism and Soft Sports Tourism, while Gibson suggested that there are three types of sports tourism included Sports Event Tourism, Celebrity and Nostalgia Sport Tourism and Active Sport Tourism.