STUDY TOUR: BATAM VISITED GROUPS of STUDENTS SINGAPORE 7 times EACH YEAR

A number of remote and natural state school in Batam city became the purpose of the visit by Singapore students are commonly called school retreat or a school field trip.

Kadis tourism and culture city of Batam Yusfa Hendry says remote schools and natural state as a garden in Batam to be attractive as a tourist destination for schools in Singapore.

"They visited the remote schools with infrastructure is not good, and they also brought aid like computers," he said on Tuesday (26/2/2013).

According to him, the foreign students come to visit Batam during the middle of the year through school retreat organized his school. A number of locations visited students are agricultural areas located in the Nongsa North Coast.

But more Yusfa, currently all the local travel agency that works closely with travel agents Singapore to facilitate program School Retreat.

Adis, a travel agency Manager in Batam, reveal Water Tour, visits school retreat from Singapore to Batam usually increases during the months of March to June.

His regular travel agent serves about 80 students in one trip with long stay 3-4 nights. As for the learning program takes place according to regular school hours in Singapore i.e. from morning until four in the afternoon.

"Usually the school retreat can be 6 to 7 times a year. For full project, they visit the nongsa, orphanages and schools are less capable. Learning activities and games among the students here, "said