Saudi Journal of Business and Management Studies (SJBMS)
Volume-3 | Issue-02 | 107-113
Original Research Article
Making the City of Tangerang South, Halal Culinary Tourist City
Sonny Indrajaya, Margono Setiawan, Nur Khusniyah Indrawati, Mugiono
Published : Feb. 20, 2018
Abstract
Halal culinary tourism is part of tourism. Tourism in recent years has
become a very competitive market. One important component of tourism resources is
the destination. The most competitive tourist destinations are the most effective in
creating sustainable prosperity for the communities around them. Tourism is a
strategic industry and has become a great and big industry, tourism contributes great
foreign exchange for tourism regime countries. Tourism can provide jobs, income and
quality of society, then the community is also increasingly love the culture of the
nation, the community will also maintain the environment. Currently Halal tourism
which is a new tourist destination. The index covers 130 countries to serve as a
benchmark destination in the Muslim Tourist Market. The Global Muslim Travel
Index (GMTI) of 2017 creates an index score for each country that is the destination of
Islamic travel visits for the member countries of the Organization of Islamic
Cooperation (OIC). Indonesia has a 67.5 index score ranked sixth after Qatar, Saudi
Arabia, UAE / UAE, Turkey and Malaysia. The Ministry of Tourism of Indonesian
Republic (Kemenpar) has so far developed and promoted services business in the field
of hotels, restaurants, travel agencies and spas in 12 sharia tourist destinations. The
development is carried out in several cities, namely Aceh, West Sumatra, Riau,
Lampung, Banten, Jakarta, West Java, Central Java, Yogyakarta, East Java, NTB and
South Sulawesi. Banten Province is in position no 5 for the development of Islamic
tourism destinations. Tangerang Selatan is one of the cities in Banten province, has
high economic growth with high purchasing power and is a self-contained and modern
city with complete facilities (BPS Tangerang Selatan 2015). Currently the city of
South Tangerang is well known as a culinary tourism city, all of this is a potential
owned by the southern city of Tangerang and can attract research as a new city of halal
culinary tourism, but to become a new city of halal culinary tourism there are still
some problems based on pre survey. The problems in South Tangerang City are
interesting to be used as research.