This paper discusses the implementation of social entrepreneurship in Madura Island. It also examines the difficulties of developing tourism social entrepreneurship in the Madurese community. Drawing on in-depth interviews held with 37 residents, this study argues that the social entrepreneurship is...

Competitiveness, excellences and quality are strategic issues and a big agenda and of Bandung and Bali Institute of Tourism (STP) and the Deputy of Tourism Institutional Development of the Ministry of Tourism. To realize their vision and mission, the two institutions are faced with a number of challenges...

Jakarta as the core of Java Mega-Urban Region has become an unavoidable stopover on tourist routes. Musical events -as Jazz festivals - in the fast-transforming metropole do attract an ever-increasing number of visitors from the Asia Pacific area, and even further. Tourism managers must from now on face...

The main objective of this study is to investigate the impact of motivation, attitude, and subjective norm on stage of readiness to be involved in volunteer tourism and its implication on social marketing. Volunteer tourism is a tourism product that combines volunteerism and tourism activities in a destination...

The new economic era - the experience economy - that we entered in the XXI century is challenging the overall tourism industry and destinations to respond to visitor expectations in a radically different way, demanding a new vision on what is truly being delivered to them. Within the current era, tourism...

It is incontestable that sustainable tourism has long been worldwide main issue, however, only a few focus on the tourist as the key factor. In regard to tourist concern, it is essential to discuss tourist "sustainable intelligence" in which it shows tourists' ability to use their knowledge and experience...

Educational tourism is one of tourism type from the form of alternative tourism that has been developed between the conventional tourism era and modern tourism era. Generally, alternative tourism tends to develop according to sustainability principals. The packaging of tourism destination potential,...

Tourists shopping behaviour during vacation is considerably different from their daily shopping activities. Tourists perceived their shopping experience more hedonic and novel, while ordinary purchase is more utilitarian. Most tourists purchase for souvenirs when they do shopping. The objective of this...

Service quality in museum influences museum experience, concerning with museum exhibits presentation, personnel competence, empathy, and consumption on products related to the museum. This paper has presented a formal examination on visitor expectations and perceptions of service quality in museum Geology...

Writing and publishing book has become a strong intention of every educator. The published book is not only valuable for promotion and selfactualization but also for developing authority and public appreciation. The fact, many educators want to write books but they never start writing. Some have started...

Parepare is a city located in South Sulawesi Province which one of the facilities is a port that oftenly visited by cruise ships. Generally, the tourists carried by the cruise ships are having shore excursion to Tana Toraja, and those who don't join the program could spend some time in Parepare to enjoy...

Practicum students play a major part in the hospitality industry. They support the regular staff assigned in the different sections in hotels, restaurants, travel agencies, airports and other tourism establishments all over the world. For Filipino hospitality and tourism practicum students they have...

This study aims to assess and analyze : (1) The attempts to make Mekarsari tourism park as the safeguard of the environment, (2) The efforts of Mekarsari tourism park to empower local communities, (3)The attempts of Mekarsari tourism park to increase revenue and product diversification, (4) The sustainable...

It can be interpreted that the mega event had a variety of impacts, both positive and negative in the community (local communities) and relevant stakeholders (Bowdin at.al 2006) with the statement that the mega event will bring a positive and negative effect on the economy, tourism, physical, cultural,...

Tourism is one of eight professions that are prioritized to be integrated in the framework of ASEAN Economic Community. Among the prioritized professions, tourism has led in producing detail arrangements of mutual recognition agreement in the sector, including by setting ASEAN Common Competence Standards...

This study was conducted to determine the role of food tourism development on Disability Issues of Social Welfare (DISW) women's empowerment in Bogor. Preliminary studies indicate the role of food tourism development on DISW women's empowerment did by food industries, so this study focused on the role...

More visitors are nowadays travelling to destinations in search of culinary experiences. Food functions not merely as physiological sustenance but also as a destination experience enhancer, providing opportunities to learn about destination culture through direct encounters with local cuisines. This...

The main task of tourism department according to the regulation of Bali Governor no 51 of 2008 is to formulate technical policies in the field of tourism, to manage and facilitate the field of tourism, to issue licenses and to carry out public services in the field of tourism, fostering the implementation...

The purpose of this study was to assess the significance of bread crocodiles as symbols for indigenous Betawi people in their wedding processions. The method used in the study was descriptive and qualitative by in-depth interview and observation. The study was conducted in Setu Babakan, Betawi Cultural...

Tourism is a highly competitive industry and one of the fastest growing industries in the world. Developing countries have diverse reasons to use tourism as a strategy towards development. Developing countries have been using tourism to generate highly sought after foreign exchange to handle the problems...

Facing the uncertainty of the changes taking place on the application of Asea Economic Community (EAC) at the end of December 2015, this paper discusses what EAC impact on higher education institutions, particularly the higher education institutions of tourism in Indonesia. What strategy should be done...

The development of tourism industry has risen significantly in Indonesia. As the capital, Jakarta has become a metropolitan which has developed very fast in many fields, like in business & International trade. Other than that Jakarta is also a tourism destination which is focused on shopping and culinary...

This study aims to analyze positions of Sahid's alumni in the workplace in the area of Jakarta and to determine strategy to raise the positions of Sahid's alumni in the workplace in Jakarta. This research is descriptive qualitative. The analyzed unit is the data of alumni's position in the workplace...

Box of traditional games is a product that combines five games in one box and price. Five games that were selected are dam haji (checkers), ceper (bottle steel cap), batu seremban (tossing stone), guli (marble) and gasing (tops spinning) which commonly played in Malaysia and some parts of the world....

This paper explores the Indonesian traditional food as heritage. It demonstrates that it has an important role in tourism beside its role in fulfilling man's basic necessity. This role is including destination identity, marketing, and income generation. There is global trend for having food museum attraction...

Started with our curiosity, how the classical Javanese dance like the Srimpi dance still popular for young dancer in Yogyakarta among of competition popular dance from Japanese, Korean and others foreign culture for young and teenagers. The Srimpi dance turned out still had a place for its existence....

spectacular events in nature. On 9 March 2016, the solar eclipse happened in several regions in Indonesia. This event attracted tourists to visit Indonesia. The tourists came for not only seeing the beautiful solar eclipse scene but also getting sensation of myths and cultures in Indonesia during the...

In tourism sector, shopping is a favorite activity for tourists especially for Chinese tourists. Shopping behaviour can be different according to their interest. This research aims at investigating the shopping behaviour of the tourists from China as the second major market in Bali. The questionnaire...

The increase of tourist arrivals recently reach more than a billion and marked above average growth since the 2009 economic crisis globally. The increase of business cope with the increase of tourist needs such as food, water, and energy in a well condition while travel agent ignore of those resources...

Undoubtfully tourism in Asia can give a significant contribution in economic income for both countries and their people. Many countries in Asia attract tourists from over the world to visit their countries in a variety of efforts. Beside providing a good service, infrastructures and beautiful tourism...

The island of Bali is an excellent place for us to observe tourist behavior and question the diversity of activities. In this context, it also allows us to question the accusation of 'standardization' generated by tourism exacerbated in the context of globalization. Does this cause relationships with...

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...

Nowadays, Islamic tourism has grown rapidly due to the variance of attractions offered, such as Muslim-friendly hospitality, 'halal' food restaurants and the unique architecture of the mosques that known as 'mosque tourism', which also affects the growth of Islamic tourism in Malaysia. The most successful...

The purpose of this research is to assess the potentials of Bangladesh in becoming one of the major sustainable tourism destinations of the world. Bangladesh - the land of unique natural beauties like the Sundarbans, Cox's Bazar, Sylhet, Hill tracts areas - is a country lying at the apex of the Bay of...

this paper aims at presenting the exploratory methodology the author used to identify her fieldwork location, and the first findings about the factors affecting Chinese tourist's mobility in France.

TThe environment and ecosystem life of human being couldn't be apart from natural environment and social environment. Darsono (1995) stated that environment means a place where human beings live with their activities and everything around the society could affect the development of human being life directly...

Gastronomic Tourism is part of the special interests that explore natural resources and the potential to give rise to the nation's cultural arts and special interest attractiveness as a tourist target . Gastronomic tourism give travelers an authentic culinary education and a much greater understanding...

Bantimurung Bulusaraung National Park is known with its pre-historic caves that is admitted as the eldest pre-historic caves in the world and base on the research its came from 40,000 thousand years ago. There are more than hundreds pre-historic caves in this national park. But the fact is not many people...

East Flores Distric is one of district at East Nusa Tenggara that has natural and cultural tourist attractions potential. Based on the data from Swisscontact in 2013 there is an increasing number of international tourists visiting each years, but in the last year 2014, the target of tourists visiting...

The era of digitalization now has given a huge impact to all sectors. Internet as one of the tools is used to support all business, especially in tourism industries. Website of an establishment would be a big chance to inform anything about the products. The prospect Kampung Gajah Wonderland is considered...

Banyuwangi Regency is located at the most eastern tip of the island of Java. The district has many interesting tourism potential, both nature and man-made tourism product. One of the man-made tourism product which is currently being developed is an event that is packed in a series of events named Banyuwangi...

This study aims at giving some thoughts that cultural differences influence a great deal in English communication. This research is limited to a brief theoretical background of the importance of mastering the English language and how cultural and communication barriers can be reduced. The data of this...