Rinjani Journey is a business developed to provide job for local people as many of them already graduated from high school and they work as mountain guide, for those people who dropped out from Junior high school and primary school work as porters. Most of them received training and already licensed tour guide or mountain guide, and porters received training as well during the GunungRinjani National Park: Rinjani Ecotourism Program funded by NZAID. When I was in the program it was allocated budget to increase the capacity of guides and porters. Some trainings were carried out collaborated with Guide Association, Provincial Tourism Service, National Park and Vulcanology. Since the GunungRinjani National Park: Rinjani Trek Ecotourism Program ended, the government very rarely to fund the training for mountain guide, porters and women guides. There are more than thirty women guides in Senaru and they are under the women guide association. They need training to increase their skills and knowledge, and senior guides also need refresh training to increase their knowledge.
Farmland is decreasing every year, so many people have small pieces of land and even no farmland at all. Their income depend heavily on tourismand no longer rely on agriculture since 2005.
Rinjani Journey would like to take partto increase the capacity of mountain guides, women guides and porters, so business concept is developed 20 % of the profit will be allocated for training and conservation to help National Park and 10 % to support primary school children from poor families with school supplies such as school bag, some books, pens, pencils, school uniform and shoes.
The problem is faced by the GunungRinjani National Park is too much rubbish during the trekking season. Our policy applies every time our guides and porters hike with the clients or visitors they must bring their rubbish down and reported to the staffs. They will sort plastics waste like plastic bottles that has value and they can sell them to get extra income. Start from this year Rinjani Journey with the National Park will encourage local tour operators to bring their rubbish down to keep the cleanliness on the mountain. Before the trekking season national park will convey the regulation to local tour operators, guides and porters through meeting. National Park rangers will be on duty in the gate to check the rubbish if they do not bring their rubbish down they will get fine.
We classify our service into three types: standard, superior and deluxe. What make different are the menu, equipment (superior and deluxe is provided chairs, foam mattress between superior and standard service thickness is different while deluxe service while deluxe service uses an air bed), drinking water and number of porters. Each porter carries maximum load of 25 kilos. If you book 3D_2N trek and take standard service, it includes one (1) night accommodation standard room and if you take superior or deluxe it includes one night accommodation superior room before the trek. The difference in service will affect the package price.
Vision
Become one of the leading ecotourism destination on Mt. Rinjaniand its surroundings with an economically profitable and sustainable tourism industry, provide benefit to local people and in harmony with conserving environment, culture and people’s values.