Sport Tourism Development in Mali Beach Alor Regency - Indonesia

Abstract

Sports Tourism is tourism to participate in sports activities both in the context of participating in competitions or just as fun in channeling sports hobbies. It is undeniable that tourism is one of the government's mainstays in attracting the number of tourists. Various types of tourism and concepts have been developed, namely the New Bali concept and one type of tourism that is now starting to be glimpsed is sports tourism. Alor Regency benefits from a fairly wide sea and many small islands and also has several beach destinations. One of the beaches that has begun to be developed is Mali Beach. Mali Beach is starting to be seriously managed by the local government because it has very strong tourism potential, namely clean white sand and calm seas that can attract tourists, especially sports tourism including swimming, snorkeling, diving, jet skiing, flyboarding, and others. In this study, the method used is descriptive qualitative method by conducting direct observations and interviews with predetermined informants such as managers, village heads, community leaders, tourists and the Alor Regency Tourism Office with an in-depth interview approach. This study uses a SWOT analysis technique. This method is intended so that researchers can obtain in-depth information from these resource persons. The results of this paper are local communities verry enthusiastic about sport tourism but they don't have basic skill about it and they don't know how to manage the sport tourism. Training about sport tourism is very important to support the development and managing all about sport tourism.

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“…A good sports tourism climate is also expected to help the economy in Indonesia. This is in line with the results of previous studies, which stated that when interest and participation in sports grew in the recreation industry, people's desire to travel and sport is an important element in world tourism and has become a very competitive good business (Lau et al, 2022) and (Hidayat et al, 2017). The participation of Kiara Artha Park visitors can also be proven through positive experiences after visiting.…”

“…Therefore, sports tourism should be developed in Indonesia because it has become an industry in other parts of the world. Even sports tourism is an important element in world tourism, and has become a very competitive good business (Lau et al, 2022) and (Ariastini, Ni Nengah, Ni Made Ayu Natih Widhiarini, 2017). Sports tourism is also very helpful for local, national, and international economies (Hemmonsbey et al, 2021).…”

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