The Culture and Nature Tourism Policy Approach to Promote the Economic Growth in Term of the Aspects of Tourist Perception Alteration in District of Simalungun
The Culture and Nature Tourism Policy Approach to Promote the Economic Growth in Term of the Aspects of Tourist Perception Alteration in District of Simalungun

Summary/Abstract: This study analyzed the tourism development policy in promoting the economic growth, by means of the cultural tourism and nature tourism approach. This far, a tourism development policy has not been able to maximally promote the economic growth through regulation as outlined in the development plan, based on the stages of the preparation of the agenda, the formulation, the adoption, the implementation and the evaluation. This study used regression analysis with Amos towards 400 samples. Whilst the method used was the qualitative method. The implementation of the results derived from the five variables always yields the negative results below 0.05, i.e. -0.29 on the link between variables, -0.361 on the link between the parameters of indicators, and -0.187 on the partial link. Whilst the total link between the evaluation variables of the economic growth was not significant, which means that the implementation of tourism policy in order to promote the economic growth by means of the approach of cultural tourism and nature tourism was inconsistent with the preparation of the policy agenda, the adoption, the formulation and the evaluation. This study concluded that a review is needed to be done, hence the implementation could properly materialize, such as the placement of people in a proper place, followed by the improvement of the policy evaluation on the whole.

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