IDENTIFICATION OF TOURIST MOVEMENT PATTERN IN HARAU VALLEY TOURISM AREA Case Study: Harau Valley Nature Park Tourism Area, Harau District, Lima Puluh Kota Regency, Sumatera Barat Province

• Main Author: (NIM : 95714001), SILVIA
• Format: Theses
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/24307
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

As one of the tourism destination area in West Sumatera, Harau Valley has varied potential in ecotourism aspect. However, limitation of facilities and infrastructure, the distance between one object to another tourism object and there are many information about the potential of tourism object that has not been widely publicized cause the spread of tourists in every tourism object unevenly. This study aims to identify the differences of tourism movement pattern based on the socio-demographic characteristics, trip characteristics, and tourists itenerary both local and foreign tourists by using tourism movement pattern analysis, mapping it by using GIS sofware to visualize tourism movement patterns, and identifying forming factors of tourist movement patterns by using SPSS 17.0 through Crosstab Chi Square test. This study used mix methods approach by <br /> <br /> <br /> doing observation, interviews and questionnaires. <br /> <br /> <br /> The differences in socio-demographic characteristics of domestic tourists and foreign tourists are on the aspect of gender, education and status. While the differences in the trip are the aspects of accommodation, main destination or stopover, traveling companions, and transportation used. However the most visited tourist attraction by local tourists is Sarasah Aka Berayun and Sarasah Bunta. While foreign tourists prefer to visit remote areas such as Forest and Sarasah Air Angek. Domestic tourist trips formed six movement patterns that is single stop pattern as dominant pattern. While foreign tourists only formed 4 movement patterns that is destination region loop as the dominant pattern. Tourist status, tourist domicile, accommodation, length of stay, traveling companion, transportation used to Harau Valley, and main destination or stopover (type of destination) are the determining factors of tourist movement pattern. It is necessary to plan tourism products, planning tourism facilities, planning friendly transportation, community empowerment, attractive and <br /> <br /> <br /> interesting marketing strategies and managing tourism routes as well as the use of facilities in order to minimize the negative impacts of tourism.