Mapping of culinary tourism distribution based on web data mining information. Case Study: Bandar Lampung City

Abstract

In the previous decades, tourism was expanding rapidly, as every country both developed and developing one has gained its impact of increasing revenue through tourism sector. Sympathetically in Indonesia, the tourism sector is growing in every area that has potential tourism sites whether in urban or rural areas. For urban areas that generally do not have a natural tourism destination, they develop the artificial products and services, such as culinary tours that turned out to show significant development. Bandar Lampung, as a capital city of Lampung Province, potentially become a metropolitan city, also has mushroomed culinary tours that become the main attraction for the tourists. Furthermore, this research aim to mapping and spatially revealing the spread pattern of culinary tourism in Bandar Lampung. This research uses a descriptive method, while in mapping the distribution of culinary tourism, web mining applications with crawling method is mobilized to collect and extract information about culinary or restaurants in Bandar Lampung obtained from the Trip Advisor website. The result of this study shows the deployment points of the culinary tourism follow the consumer's agglomeration which grows in the scattered land use pattern. This research could be a reference for local governments in determining tourism development policies without violating the land use regulation.