Sustainable Tourism and Socio-Economic Development in Likupang, North Minahasa: A Super Priority Destination of North Sulawesi, Indonesia

Lagarense, Bet El Silisna and Putong, Ivonne H. and Turangan, Jolly (2022) Sustainable Tourism and Socio-Economic Development in Likupang, North Minahasa: A Super Priority Destination of North Sulawesi, Indonesia. In: International Conference on Applied Science and Technology on Social Science (ICAST) 2022.

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Abstract

The focus of this research is a sustainable tourism development model with multidisciplinary approach including a socio-economic approach in North Minahasa Regency. Potential tourism in the North Minahasa Regency are the areas with the potential attractions for natural tourism, cultural tourism, agro tourism and other tourism both developed and undeveloped. The purpose of this research was to create a model for sustainable tourism development in North Minahasa Regency with a multidisciplinary approach. This researcher used a mixed methodnamely by combining quantitative and qualitative research techniques. The field research consisted of a questionnaire survey using a Likert scale and observations at the locations studied to explore evidence of tourism management and development in North Minahasa regency both open-ended and closed-ended questions. The results of the research showed that the development of sustainable tourism in Likupang, North Minahasa as a super priority destination had an impact and provided positive benefits in tourism as well as social and economic aspects for the region and the people who live in the destination. Therefore, a sustainable tourism development and management model is needed to be implemented by all tourism pentahelix stakeholders, namely Academic, Business, Government, Community and Media. Keywords— tourism, sustainable, North Minahasa, multidisciplinar

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