THE EMERGENCE OF A NEW RELIGIOUS TRAVEL SEGMENT: UMRAH DO IT YOURSELF TRAVELLERS (DIY)

This research examines the rise of a new religious travel segment – the Umrah Do It Yourself (DIY) travellers. While Hajj is the fifth pillar of Islam, Umrah is a minor Muslim pilgrimage that can be undertaken at any time of the year, while still playing a crucial role in the completion of Hajj rituals. In the past, Umrah was managed by an authorised travel agent, who makes all the necessary pilgrimage preparations, from flights to trip itineraries. Recent years have seen an upsurge in travellers who prefer not to utilise the services of such agencies, but instead, to make their own arrangements. The decision by the Saudi Arabian government to launch a Tourist e-Visa in September 2019 has opened a window of opportunity for the legalization of Umrah DIY journeys. The objectives of this study are (i) to explore the travel motives that contribute to the success of the Umrah DIY, and (ii) to explore the factors that support and facilitate the decision for the Umrah DIY. The data were obtained via 20 semi-structured interviews with Umrah DIY travellers. The findings show that flexibility, spirituality, and budget have a crucial impact on travel motivation. Additionally, the findings suggest that information sources, travel quality, companionship/new friendship, and familiarity facilitate the choice of Umrah DIY travel. This research contributes to the growing scholarship on the Muslim travel market beyond Hajj and to studies on independent religious travel. Findings provide an opportunity for suppliers and industry participants to understand the travel motives of this new segment as a basis for producing relevant religious tourism products and services.

Respon Pemerintah dan Pengusaha Lokal dalam Menangani Masalah “Zero-Dollar Tourist” Cina di Bali

In 2017, Bali visited by 1.3 million Chinese tourist. This great number positively appreciated for the local socio-economic benefit. However, unfortunately it led to serious concern because of the ‘zero-dollar tourist’ issue, the tourist that contributed nothing on the island as all payment cash, fee, and commissions went back to China. This article identifies the raise of Chinese tourist in Bali, the response of tourism stakeholders, and Governmental policy innovations to win the zero-dollar tourist. The data sourced from newspaper, research reports, interviews, and online article journals as well as online video. The results indicated that the visit of Chinese tourists in Bali, specifically before the pandemic Covid-19, was affected by the inter-government cooperation policies, aviation supplies, and tourism advertising. The high quantity visitors of Chinese tourist were responded positively, but the practice of zero-dollar tourist was caused the negatively point of view. The Bali Government shut the illegal Chinese-related souvenir shops down and encouraged travel agent to take Chinese tourist to shopped in locally-owned outlets.

Exploring e-Tourism : Technology and Human Factors

Information services are very important to attract tourists to come to a certain country or location which can be provided through e-Tourism application. This application is for people who will find out more about the location they will visit. People need to know the location, the length of the trip or the price details for each item they will buy during the trip. Due to this, many countries have developed their respective e-Tourism application. This paper presented the lesson-learn of e-Tourism development from several countries to understand main components of e-Tourism design. We found four main modules of e-Tourism application including booking services, recommender services, tour plan services and information center services. The human factors of application intention usage are influenced by perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, experience, information quality, domain specific innovativeness. Moreover, we also obtained the factors influenced tourism tour booking intention, including advice of travel agent, e-commerce feature, access time, possibility of comparison, information obtained from destinations, social media and opinions & perception target.

Magnet Paket Wisata Dalam Menarik Kunjungan Wisatawan Asing Berkunjung Ke Yogyakarta

Tourism is inseparable from the role of the Travel Agent. The role of travel agents is vital due to the creativity of “ concocting “ tour packages offered by the travel agent that makes the magnetic allure of foreign tourists come to Yogyakarta. With more and more of her as a tourist destination has to offer and the more diverse types packagege tour at an economical price, then the scene of a race between a travel agent - travel agent in Yogyakarta to captivate foreign tourists to come to Yogyakarta.ASITA ( Association of Indonesian Tours And Travel ) is a forum All Indonesia Tour & Travel Yogyakarta chapter, noting that there is a trend of foreign tourists visit it depends on the package tours offered by travel agents. Offered more competitive prices which makes the competition between travel agents with one another. Many factors affect the motivation of an individual or a group of tourists who come to Yogyakarta.

Wisata Konvensi : Potensi Gede Bisnis Besar

MICE (Meeting, Incentive, Conference, Exhibition) in this time still represent the potential market of tourism in Yogyakarta. At the moment more‘s a lot of activity of MICE performed in Yogyakarta, is so that expected in a period to coming to Yogyakarta become the target of MICE after Bali. With the existence of the growing tourism MICE, hence hotel in Yogyakarta of both for have there is and also which in the process of out for development make the meeting room (Ballroom) which can accommodate until 2.500 visitors. Some hotelss are ready to for example Prodigal of Ambarruko Hotel, Sahid Rich Hotel, propose the readily Tentrem Hotel becoming Yogyakarta as the town of target MICE, with the goal of 65% activity MICE and 35% guests from Travel Agent (Kompas com. 28 June 2014).

Impact of Destination Attributes on Tourists Destination Selection: With Special Reference to Cultural Triangle of Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka is one of the fastest-growing tourist destinations in the world. Amongst tourists’ attractions, “Cultural Triangle”, a region of the cultural heritage of the country has become the highest income generating destination. However, when compared with the other tourists’ destinations of the country, the number of tourists visiting the cultural triangle is low. As the literature reveals, the attributes of the destination matter in destination selection by the international tourists. Thus, considering the importance of this region as the top income contributor but not in terms of the number of tourists’ visits, this study problematizes the impacts of destination attributes on tourist`s destination selection. Accordingly, the objective of this study is to identify the destination attributes and their relationship with the tourists’ destination selection decisions. Data was collected through questionnaires from a sample of 222 foreign tourists who visited the cultural triangle during 2019 through a selected travel agent. Results of the multiple regression analysis revealed that attributes of Amenities, Destination Attractions, Accessibility, Ancillary Services, and Destination Environment as having a moderate positive relationship whilst, the service quality weak positive relationship with Tourist’s Destination selection. Destination attraction was identified as the most influential factor of all attributes. The findings of this study can be used by policymakers in developing destinations for tourists’ attractions in the country.

Decision Support System for Tour Package Recommendation in Bali Using BWM-MARCOS Method

Bali is one of the provinces with profitable tourism opportunities. It has led to many businesses related to tourism, which is a travel agent. Travel agents in Bali usually offer variety of tour packages with different prices and specifications. The problem experienced by tourists in determining tour packages is that the price of tour packages is quite high and does not match the tourist budget. In addition, the schedule of visits from tour packages is also inflexible. This problem can be overcome by making a decision support system for forming tour packages. This study uses the BWM method to determine each criterion’s optimal weight and the MARCOS to rank alternative tourism objects that will form a tour package. Testing results using confusion matrix get an accuracy value of 74.19%, precision of 81.25%, recall / sensitivity of 72.22% and specificity of 76.92%.