Tufi Tapa tattoo cultural show launched

By HELEN TARAWA
THE launching of the Tufi Tapa Tattoo Cultural Show sets the platform for the event to be a part of a national annual programme promoting tourism in the country.
Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer Charles Abel, who launched the show last week, said Tufi had a big potential in tourism development.
He commended Ijivitari MP Richard Masere for the initiative, which will be a follow-on from Milne Bay’s Kenu Kundu Festival in early November.
Masere said it was an event that would go for a long time in Northern.
“We decided to partner Milne Bay, our neighbour, to showcase our culture to the rest of PNG,” he said.
“Today we are here to celebrate our culture and heritage through this Tufi Tapa Tattoo Cultural Show. Our country is diverse with over 1000 different cultures and languages. We face a lot of challenges and difficulties because of our terrain and our rugged mountains.”
Masere said Milne Bay’s Kenu and Kundu Festival was in the first week of November in the Tourism Promotion Authority calendar while the Tapa Tattoo show would be held the following week.
“We can run it in partnership with the people of Oro going to support the Milne Bays, and they in return will come to us,” he said.