The Characteristic of Coastal Tourism Destination in Supporting the Development of Multi-Destination Concept for Coastal Tourism Area in North Kayong Regency, Kalimantan Barat Province, Indonesia

Abstract

 Coastal tourism is the main resources from tourism sector in North Kayong Regency. Despite the fact that its potential resource from coastal area tourism has similar attraction in order to attract the tourist more extensively, it is necessary to make an effort to tackle the stagnant market of tourism towards similar coastal tourism destinations. Therefore, it would be a good to make the destination to be more attractive by enhancing the existing tourist attractions through strengthening the destination characteristics as attractiveness that are derived from its signature. Moreover, it could diverse the destination that would impact for its benefits in terms of diversity destination. The lack of development in costal tourism destination tends not to take all part of the area for the benefit of its tourist destination development that is caused by many factors. One of many possible efforts to support the development of coastal tourism is the identification of its availability and establishment of signature tourist destination characteristics. Every tourist destination has their own difference characteristic. This is one of the reason why the development and develop of tourist destination for coastal tourism tend to be influenced by its own unique characteristics. In order to enhance the values, it is needed to put an effort to classify and look for the uniqueness, for further appreciate of uniqueness characteristic. The result of classification from this research has been determined by its own potential and characteristic for each destination. For every category derived from the variable identified from existing condition of every destination. The variables are used to determine many factors of successful development of destination, which are very dependable to the existing resources and coastal resources such as tourism infrastructure, general infrastructure and accessibility as part of the efforts of shortening the access time. The purpose of this research is to search for characteristic of coastal tourism in Remote Island and coastal area of North Kayong Regency. Secondly, it is to find the opportunity to create multi-destination concept in the pattern of tourist visits in the corridor of coastal tourism and to match the appropriateness between the tourist destination characteristic toward the opportunity to create multi-destination concept as direction for strategic development concept to enhance the value of representative destination in remote area location. This research uses descriptive qualitative method with an emphasis on deductive approach. The instruments used for analysis are questionnaire, interview, and continum scale that produce from the Likert method of satisfaction questionnaire. This research reveals that there are many strong characteristics from the uniqueness of nature, i.e., geographic Imanuddin Abdulgani, student in Postgraduate Program of Architecture and Tourism Planning,