Governments’ approach on marine tourism industry policy

Marine Research in Indonesia, 2016

Wakatobi Regency has a huge capacity in natural resources with it's beautiful and pristine coastal ecosystems that host 25 coral reefs species in diverse forms. The regency is considered as the world’s best biosphere and frequently visited by local and international tourists for diving/snorkeling. The objectives of this study are to determine the role of marine tourism in Wakatobi’seconomy and formulate an appropriate and strategic policy for its marine tourism development plan. Methods used in this research are theLocation Quotient (LQ) analysis to determine the relative ability of a sub-area to a wider area in the specific sector, and theProspective Participatory Analysis for preparing the marine tourism development plan. The LQ analysis for the marine tourism (trade, hotels, and restaurants) sector based on GDP data from 2004-2007 shows values ranging from 0.808-0.881, which indicate poor potential and low contribution of this sector toWakatobi’s economy. TheProspective Parti...

International Journal of Social Science and Human Research

The purpose of this study is to describe the role of the government in tourism development at Muna Barat Regency, and the impact of tourism development on improving people's welfare at Muna Barat Regency. This research uses a descriptive method with a qualitative approach. Qualitative descriptive research is one type of qualitative research because the social and cultural environment at Muna Barat Regency, through the local government emphasizes that the existence of tourist objects can be used as a means for the local community to recognize the variety of cultures brought by domestic and foreign tourists. The results of this research showed that: (1) The government's role in tourism development at Muna Barat Regency is to organize and develop tourism objects to improve community welfare, empower tourism businesses and manage tourism data and promotion, and (2) The impact of tourism development on improving welfare at Muna Barat Regency through tourism development are: lack ...

Open Journal of Social Sciences

This research was focused to analyze strategy of local government in the development of tourism in Marina Beach, Bantaeng regency, South Sulawesi province, and the supporting and inhibiting factors as well as efforts to overcome them. Design used in this research is descriptive qualitative through SWOT analysis concept from Rangkuti, with calculation by Litmus test from Bryson to find the most strategic applicable issue. As for the affecting factors in strategy, there are supporting and inhibiting factors, while inhibiting factors can be overcome by efforts based on mapping of internal (strengths and weaknesses) and external factors (opportunities and threats). And therefore, 16 applicable strategies have been formulated, consisting of SO strategies: advancing promotion by employing technology of both electronic media such as website and printed media such as tabloid, brochure and magazine; making regulations on Preservation of Tourism Regions and giving strict sanction to any violation; W-O strategies: reevaluating tourism development programs by providing better supporting facilities and infrastructures; employing technology optimally in the development of tourism object since initial to final phase; S-T strategies: encouraging conducive atmosphere among communities for better security and order to provide secureness for both local and foreign tourists; W-T strategies: preserving unity and integrity to reduce individuality in community and to prevent acculturation and negative influence of foreign culture; placing staff according to their skill, especially the one with competence in the field of tourism.

Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2018

Tourism is important because it can revive economically a community around tourist attractions. North Sumatra Province, which includes Medan, shows great potential for the development of marine tourism. However, it is not run optimally. Moreover, poor quality infrastructure and human resources are also a threat to marine tourism in Indonesia. This study’s methodology involved a qualitative method and used focus group discussions (FGDs) to obtain data from 25 informant travel agent in North Sumatra Province. This study’s results found that marketing strategies need consistent support from government and travel agents. The rapid development of communication and information technology has become one of the most important elements in the development of marketing strategies.

Masyarakat, Kebudayaan dan Politik

This research is motivated by the problems that arise from the implementation of the strategy of tourism development and a creative economy in Pisang Island of Pesisir Barat District, Lampung Province. The purpose of this research is to analyze the synergy between various parties in the development of marine tourism in Pisang Island. The research uses descriptive and qualitative approaches. The data collection techniques in use include interviews, documentation, and observation. Data analysis is carried out through data reduction, data display, and conclusion. The results showed that the strategy of marine tourism development in Pisang Island was not well implemented as a result of the lack of co-operation between government, society, and investors. The government was the pioneer of the construction of facilities, in both the main facilities and infrastructure, for potential investors who would invest their capital. As a result of this research, the recommendations to be made are th...

2017

The study aims to determine the socio-economic impacts of tourism development Mutun Beach District of Padang Cermin, Pesawaran, Indonesia. The main problem in this research is how to increase the business, income, and employment in Mutun Beach. This type of research is quantitative descriptive research that is research that describes phenomena that occur in the community, especially local people that are around Mutun as a research object while the subjects to be studied is businesses and people around the Mutun Beach. The population in this study is the number of visitors, revenue, and number of parking stalls at Mutun Beach tourist area of Padang Cermin. Samples used in this study is a population of approximately and businesses in the surrounding area of coastal tourism total 30 people. The analysis technique used is to test the validity, reliability and descriptive percentage. The results showed that indicate business opportunities around Mutun Coast Tourism Attractions included i...

mamangan, 2019

The aim of this study is to formulate a model for developing marine tourism by empowering the potentials of the Mandeh tourism area community. This is because the community involvement in tourism development is still low and still at the level of independent participation. With a community-based approach the community's sense of belonging is expected. This study uses a qualitative descriptive approach to get detail picture of the experiences of individuals in the development of community-based marine tourism. The determination of informants was obtained by purposive sampling techniques, such as the government and tourism stakeholders, tourists and the coastal communities of the Mandeh tourism area. In order to obtain valid data basedon reality, data triangulation is used, while data analysis techniques used is interactive analysis. The results of this study indicate that the Mandeh region has potential resources that can be developed by empowering the community as implementing actors. The recommended alternative model for developing marine tourism uses the empowerment of community approach and emphasizes full involvement of the community in the process of developing marine tourism, such as diving, swimming, crossing the islands using speedboad transport services, and inviting tourists to see coral reef in the sea.

IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science

Talaud Islands regency has high potential in marine tourism. But, this potential is yet to be optimized for socioeconomic development of Talaud Islands regency. The purpose of research was to develop the strategies of marine tourism development in Talaud Islands Regency. This research used observation, discussion with key stakeholders, and reference study to collect the data. This research used SWOT analysis, and QSPM to develop the strategies of marine tourism. The recommendation of marine tourism development strategy in Talaud Islands Regency are (1) people development, (2) improvement of infrastructure, (3) increase tourism investors, (4) control of environmental impacts, (5) development of marine tourism destinations, (6) tourism promotion, (7) earthquake and tsunami disaster mitigation, (8) development of culinary tourism and (9) development of local souvenirs.

WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT

The potential for developing coastal areas in West Java for marine tourism continues to be increased. The development of marine tourism areas is an option for local economic recovery after Covid-19 for coastal areas. This research aims to analyze the resilience and development strategy for marine tourism in west java province, Indonesia. This research was conducted between March until August 2022 in the Southern coastal area of West Java Province, Indonesia This research used primary and secondary data. The respondent sampling technique used cluster random sampling of 100 respondents, which consisted of tourists, tour guides, and tourist destination managers. The analytical tool used SWOT analysis, validity, and reliability of the data tested. Based on the analysis results coastal community empowerment based on marine tourism development strategy in quadrant I is a very favorable situation. The coastal community empowerment based on the marine tourism development strategy has opport...

2020

Indonesia has a long coastline with a length of 81,000 km and stretches along its coastal area which has various potentials that can be utilized for sustainable development. Therefore, in the presence of several potentials found in the coastal region, it occurs in the coastal area of the Special Region of Yogyakarta where it has several potential coastal tourism that can be developed. But in its development, various kinds of problems arise related to its coastal area. These problems if not followed up will affect the sustainability and existence of coastal tourism. Based on this, the research aims to provide direction for the development of coastal tourism in Yogyakarta in realizing the sustainability of coastal areas in the form of development concepts, policies and management and regional financing. The research approach used in this study is quantitative and qualitative approaches. The qualitative approach in this study was carried out in mapping potential and problems and condit...