Proceedings of the Asia Tourism Forum 2016 - the 12th Biennial Conference of Hospitality and Tourism Industry in Asia

Hygiene and Sanitation at Street Vendors That Sell Around Monas

Authors
Vienna Artina, Wijayanti Prabandasari
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Vienna Artina
Available Online May 2016.
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10.2991/atf-16.2016.28How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Monas, street vendors, hygiene and sanitation
Abstract

Tourists not only enjoy sights seeing at tourist attraction but also enjoy the food provided there. Tourist attractions are always full with street vendors and restaurants. For human life, food is very likely contaminated so that it can cause a disease called food borne disease.This study is conducted to describe the hygiene and sanitation of the street vendors in Monas.This research is a descriptive study using a cross sectional approach. The street vendors in Monas is used as the population. There are 25 people. Therefore total population is applied. Data in this research are the primary data consists of the identity and characteristics of the food handlers, such as age, sex, education and length of works by interviews with the food vendors in the form of a questionnaire. The results based on the characteristics of respondents shows that there are 76% of respondents aged 24-54 years and 12% respectively of respondents aged less than 24 years old and respondents aged 55 years, there is any relationship between the age of personal hygiene of food handlers. There are differences on personal behavior based on gender, as 56% of respondents is male and 44% is female. The hygiene is classified into three category, namely personal hygiene, equipment hygiene, and environment hygiene. The 48% of respondents have worked as food vendors of traditional snacks for 11 -20 years and 44% of respondents have worked as food vendors for 1-10 years. The remaining 8% have worked more than 20 years, the correlation between knowledge and work experience merges after reaching 1 (one year or more).It is revealed that 4% of the respondents is college graduates and 24% has no formal education, the rest has graduated from their first and secondary education. The results also showed that 48% of respondents has inadequate personal hygiene, and 52% of respondents has good hygiene. Furthermore, some food vendors are smoking while selling the food. 60% of respondents does not have good sanitation for equipment and 40% of respondents have good sanitation for equipment. As 36% of respondents serves food in inadequate sanitation, while 64% of respondents serve good presentation sanitation, food vendors use food display cabinets at their vendors and cafeteria. 40% of respondents have good sanitation environment and 60% of respondents have good equipment.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the Asia Tourism Forum 2016 - the 12th Biennial Conference of Hospitality and Tourism Industry in Asia
Series
Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research
Publication Date
May 2016
ISBN
10.2991/atf-16.2016.28
ISSN
2352-5428
DOI
10.2991/atf-16.2016.28How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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