Innovativeness in the Development of Special Interest Tourism: The Case of Indonesia Spa Tourism

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10.2991/atf-16.2016.71How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Special interest tourism, spa and wellness, innovation, Indonesia

Abstract

This working paper examines the development of spa tourism industry which the Indonesian government consider it as a part of special interest tourism. More particularly, the paper will take a closer look at the innovation process in such development. At the initial stage of the research, this paper reports involvement among stakeholder in the industry to construct a better regulation for sustainable development of the industry. Data are obtained through a set of focused group discussion encompassing key person from government and private sector. The result shows that there is lack of coordination among parties resulting in the weakness of regulation available to the industr

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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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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AU  - Yusri Abdillah
PY  - 2016/05
DA  - 2016/05
TI  - Innovativeness in the Development of Special Interest Tourism: The Case of Indonesia Spa Tourism
BT  - Proceedings of the Asia Tourism Forum 2016 - the 12th Biennial Conference of Hospitality and Tourism Industry in Asia
PB  - Atlantis Press
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EP  - 471
SN  - 2352-5428
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DO  - 10.2991/atf-16.2016.71
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