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example: custom and tradition, religious ritual, society way of life, historical inheritance, art, vernacular craft, etc.
Other definition is cited from www.mrsc.org, a website of Municipal Research and Services Center of Washington. It states that according to The National
Trust for Historic Preservation’s NTHP 2011, the definition of cultural heritage tourism is traveling to experience the places and activities that authentically represent
the stories and people of the past and present. It includes irreplaceable historic, cultural and natural resources.
To sum up those definitions, cultural tourism is kinds of tourism where the tourists are interested to come caused by the desire to learn citizen’s tradition, or to
see the cultural heritage at the destination, and even to join in certain cultural events held there.
C. Tourist Attraction
The main component of tourism is called tourist attraction. This component has magnetism in motivating people to make a travel.
As quoted from the document of www.tourism.wa.gov.au, a website of Western Australia Government, Metelka 1990 argues tourist attraction as positive or
favorable attributes of an area for a given activity or set of activities as desired by a given customer or market, including climate, scenery, activities, and culture. They
are:
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1. Manmade attractions are physical structures Sydney Harbor Bridge or
events Olympics. 2.
Natural attractions are physical phenomena deemed unusual and or beautiful Bungle Bungles.
Yuswohady 2005, p. 118 says the form of tourist attractions can be both nature and culture or special interesting in variety of events such as art and sport
festivals, art performances, annual exhibitions, etc. For example, Yogyakarta is one of regions that is active to hold kinds of art festivals to attract tourists from annual
event like Art Yogya Festival,
Keraton
Festival,
Sekaten
Fair,
Labuhan
to
Sendra Tari Ramayana
that is performed every full moon in Prambanan temple. While, Damardjati 2001, p. 126 suggests that tourist attraction can be in the
form of events, either periodically or constantly, both traditionally and institutionalized in modern society. All of them are positive attractions for tourists to
come, see, and enjoy, so that, it can give maximal satisfaction for tourist’s
motivations, which are stimulated to make a travel. He also suggests that tourist attraction can be in the form of object, static
things that are created by human as the result of art and culture, or natural phenomena that have magnetism in attracting tourists to come, to see, to admire, and to enjoy, so
that it will meet the tourist’s satisfaction in accordance with their motives. 2001, p. 128
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Based on the definitions above, the writer concludes that tourist attraction is an object of certain destination area that attracts people to come; this attraction may
be in the form of manmade or natural attraction.
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CHAPTER III DISCUSSION
