Contribution to Book
Critical Studies Of Tourism Communication In Manado
Proceeding of ICCIC: Communication, Industry and Community
(2016)
Abstract
Manado is capital region of North Sulawesi, a city with an area about 15.726 Ha, which is well known for their friendliness and harmony between religions and ethnicity. This city also become a tourist magnet in Indonesia’s mid and eastern region, with tourism icon such as Bukit Kasih, Tondano Lake, and history tourism like cemetery of Indonesian National heroes, such as Kyai Modjo, Tuanku Imam Bonjol, etc. Unfortunately, this potential in tourism was not maximized. There is many tourism object was not well maintained by government. Based on this fact, author conduct a research concerning in critical studies of tourism communication in Manado, describe how a city should be design to become a tourism city with tourism communication as the core, and government role to make that successful. This research used critical paradigm with qualitative phenomenology methods. The results of this research shows that government of Manado was not doing tourism communication in developing the city’s potential, and also did not give attention to tourism object.
Keywords
- critical studies,
- tourism communication,
- Manado
Disciplines
Publication Date
Spring March 3, 2016
Editor
wulan purnama sari, suzy azeharie
Publisher
faculty of coomunication, tarumanagara university
ISBN
978-602-74139-0-0
Citation Information
sari, wulan purnama. (2016). CRITICAL STUDIES OF TOURISM COMMUNICATION IN MANADO. Proceeding of ICCIC: Communication, Industry and Community. Jakarta: faculty of coomunication, tarumanagara university