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Title:            Comparative Study of Beach Tourist Areas: Existing assessment in Kumamoto Prefecture and North Sulawesi Province
Authors:       Loudy Berce Moody Kalalo, Kazuhisa Iki, Rinken Homma
Abstract:     Pressures on Coastal and marine resources in the world have increased in recent years. Erosion, pollution and spherical use of the area became common issues. Kumamoto prefecture in Japan, have so many beautiful beaches as tourist destination areas as well as North Sulawesi Province in Indonesia. But, there are some significant differences among them. The primary goal of this research is to support Indonesian coastal tourism towards sustainable tourism development. Furthermore, the technique we applied in assessment of the coastal areas was by conducting field surveys to got existing condition of sites. Then, after compounding some theories by literary review, we made identification of problem on each beach. In this part, some indicators of sustainable development for tourist destination were applied as basic tools. The assessment was made not only for indicating the differences but also to get advantages to be use as model. So, varies of superiority on one beach had opportunity to be implemented in others. From this research, we found that by adjusting appropriate concepts to a coastal tourist destination, in some circumstances, we could establish a successful tourism area from an ordinary beach.

Keywords:     Sustainable Development, Tourism, Coastal Areas, Comparison, Rectification
Pages:           246-249

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