Proceedings of the International Conference on Tourism, Gastronomy, and Tourist Destination (ICTGTD 2016)

Foreign Tourist's Perception towards Balinese Traditional Food Provided by Restaurants in Bali

Authors
Made Arya Astina, Ketut Muliadiasa
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Made Arya Astina
Available Online November 2016.
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10.2991/ictgtd-16.2017.29How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Foreign Tourist Perception, Balinese traditional food
Abstract

Food is a significant aspect of the tourist's experience of a destination. Bali is one of the most popular tourist's destination in the world. This research is about foreign tourist's perception towards balinese traditional food The aims of this research are (1) to know about foreign tourist's perception towards Balinese Traditional Food that provided in several restaurants in Southern part of Bali island (2) to know the effort needed to make Balinese Traditional Food to be favored to the foreign tourists. The research is conducted on July up to September 2016, by taking samples in restaurants at some tourism destination in Bali (Sanur, Kuta, Nusa Dua). This research has done in Sanur beach, Kuta Beach, and Nusa Dua beach because these area are the most popular place to be visited by the foreign tourist. Data collection method were conducted through observation, interview, library study and also by distributing questionaire in those area. Purposive Sampling Technique was applied in this research to determining the respondents. All data analyzed by using descriptive analysis technique which were spelt out, which later on could provide a holistic information in accordance with the foreign tourist's perception towards Balinese Traditional Food and the effort needed to make Balinese Traditional Food to be favored. There are several aspects on food to be analized in this study those are the taste, hygiene and sanitation, price, velocity of service, presentation, and supporting facilities. Based on this research, the aspect of taste, hygiene and sanitation, and presentation are the point that need to be improved. The perception towards Balinese Traditional Food in other aspect (price, velocity of service, and supporting facilities) is good. The effort needed to make Balinese Traditional Food to be well known are (1) the taste of food (not spicy) should be more acceptable by the foreign tourist, (2) the food sould be prepared and presented considering aspects of hygiene and sanitation.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the International Conference on Tourism, Gastronomy, and Tourist Destination (ICTGTD 2016)
Series
Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research
Publication Date
November 2016
ISBN
10.2991/ictgtd-16.2017.29
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2352-5428
DOI
10.2991/ictgtd-16.2017.29How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2017, 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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