Tourism development is inseparable from the role of local communities, government, and the private sector. But in practice sometimes only the government and the private sector dominate the development of tourism. Local people who are part and even the owner of a natural and social-cultural tourism attraction are not involved in planning the development of a tourist area and tend to be marginalized. This study aims to explore the perception of local communities towards the development of the Tumpa Mount People's Forest Park as an Ecotourism Attraction. Descriptive qualitative research methods are used to describe or use the details obtained from the respondent’s explanations supported by data that are quantitative. The respondent sampling technique is purposive. The results show that the community supports the establishment of this area is to become eco-tourism attraction.

The development of the tourism industry on Bunaken Island has opened up employment opportunities which lead to improved welfare of local communities. In the framework of social-based community empowerment, it is necessary to examine constructively the social capital contained in the people on the island. How are the parties involved in community empowerment action-based coordination activities. But in observing the researchers the empowerment of local communities is not optimal in the implementation of Bunaken Island. The purpose of this study was to examine the empowerment of local communities based on social capital action coordination in tourism development on Bunaken Island. Case study methods carried out were observation, interviews and documentation directly in the field. Data sources were informants selected in a snowball model. The data obtained were reduced, displayed and verified. The data were tested using triangulation methods (source, technique, and time) and check of member. Empirical findings show that community empowerment has developed such as knowledge, skills, attitudinal abilities, and capacity, as well as social capital action coordination in supporting tourism potential on Bunaken Island. Even though there are still obstacles, but because empowerment is an ongoing process, it is hoped that these obstacles will be overcome.

The purpose of this research was to determine the effect of lifestyle and product quality on mobile phone purchasing decisions at Samratulangi University Manado Students. The research of associative research is research to find out the relationship between two variables or more. This research examines the influence and relationship between independent variables, namely lifestyle (X1) and product quality (X2) on the dependent variable, namely the purchasing decision (Y). The population in this research were active college students which numbered 2,369 with the number of samples used by 96 respondents. The results of the study show that lifestyle, and product quality simultaneously influence the purchasing decisions of mobile phones. This influence in terms of the coefficient of determination is around 30%, while the rest is caused by other factors, such as advertising, prices, marketing strategies, customer loyalty, brand image and others. Lifestyle influences purchasing decisions, so that to support lifestyle, mobile purchasing decisions will increase. Product quality has an effect on purchasing decisions, so that by producing a good product it will greatly influence the purchasing decisions of mobile phones.

Manado as the capital of North Sulawesi province in the past four years has become one of the leading destinations for Chinese tourists visiting Indonesia. One of the things that has not yet been explored well is cultural and historical tourism. Though this can be a special attraction when managed properly, it can be an alternative to tourism other than marine tourism. But in his observation the sites were not used as a means of learning culture and history for the people of Manado. The purpose of this study is the use of Historical Sites as Educational Tourism. The analytical method used is descriptive by combining qualitative and quantitative methods. The research instruments used were interviews, observation and questionnaires. The analytical method used is the assessment using a Likert attitude scale. The results showed that the Manado community agreed that the various sites were used as educational tourism