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CHAPTER III The Potentials of Lau Kawar as Tourism Resort
3.1 Brief Description of Karo Regency
Karo Regency is one of tourism destinations which is visited by many tourists. Not only domestic tourists visit Karo Regency but there are many foreign tourists
do too It can be seen from the data which is given by Berastagi of Cultural and Tourism Department. The data are taken from 2010 until April 2013.
. Karo Regency is a highland which is located on position 02 50’- 03
19’ north longitude and 97
55’ – 98 38’ east longitude and high 140-140 meters above
sea level. Karo Regency has four bordering by compass. At North, Karo Regency borders on Deli Serdang Regency and
Langkat Regency At South, Karo Regency borders on Dairi Regency
At East, Karo Regency borders on Simalungun Regency At West, Karo Regency borders on Southeast Aceh
Karo Highland has wild mountains with a fresh and cool air and some of good destinations and attractions. The excess tourism in Karo Regency beside other
tourisms of North Sumatera are : It gets many good destination, especially agro tourism and attraction
It feels fresh and cool is caused Karo whose is Higland Get enough facilities and infrastructure
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It is not far from the Capital city. It is about 66 Km with a good accessibility
Some of destination and attraction in Karo Regency are : The Natural Beauty nice Viewing Doulu Viewing and Sipiso-piso
Hot Spring Semangat Gunung, Debuk-debuk Historical heritage Lingga Museum, Custom home of Si Waluh
Jabu at Lingga, Puntungan Meriam Putri Hijau at Sukanalu Volcano Sibayak Mount and Sinabung Mount
Lake Toba Lake and Lau Kawar Karo Regency also provides facilities and infrastructure which is needed by
tourists. They are : Eleven of five – star hotel
Fifty Nine of Budget Hotel Five of Travel Agency
Nine of Restaurant This data are gotten from Cultural and Tourism Department in Berastagi.
Beside that, the writer also noted some data such as ten Banks, two Money Changers, two Post Offices, and three Hospitals.
Table 1 Visitation of foreign tourist to Karo Regency in 2010 No Country
Foreign tourist 1
Holland 732
2 Malaysia
2.208 3
Taiwan 177
4 Singapore
954 5
India 95
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6 Germany
313 7
Australia 109
8 Swiss
83 9
England 17
10 China 55
11 France 261
12 Spain 19
13 USA 97
14 Thailand 213
15 Sweden 25
16 Belgium 8
17 Korea 212
18 Canada 48
19 Saudi Arabia 46
20 Philippines 8
21 Brunei Darussalam 63
22 Austria 3
23 Myanmar 50
totality 5.796
Source : The Cultural and Tourism Department of Karo Regency Table 2 Visitation of foreign tourist to Karo Regency in 2011
No Country Foreign tourist
1 Holland
708 2
Malaysia 2.549
3 Taiwan
99 4
Singapore 719
5 India
113 6
Germany 310
7 Australia
52 8
Swiss 64
9 England
3 10 China
102 11 France
172 12 Spain
19 13 USA
94 14 Thailand
76 15 Sweden
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16 Belgium 4
17 Korea 147
18 Canada 49
19 Saudi Arabia 8
20 Philippines 15
21 Brunei Darussalam 56
22 Austria 42
23 Denmark 2
24 Italia 3
25 Brazil 8
26 Japan 30
totality 5.500
Source : The Cultural and Tourism Department of Karo Regency Table 3 Visitation of foreign tourist to Karo Regency in 2012
No Country Foreign tourist
1 Holland
1.654 2
Malaysia 2.230
3 Taiwan
60 4
Singapore 604
5 India
75 6
Germany 129
7 Australia
29 8
Swiss 64
9 England
38 10 China
89 11 France
121 12 Spain
40 13 USA
42 14 Thailand
186 15 Sweden
5 16 Belgium
51 17 Korea
71 18 Canada
27 19 Saudi Arabia
5 20 Russia
7 21 Brunei Darussalam
16 22 Austria
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23 Denmark 19
24 Italia 2
25 Suriname 10
26 Japan 14
27 Finland 21
28 Ireland 1
29 South Africa 6
30 Slovenia 6
31 Sri Lanka 1
32 Morocco 2
totality 5.647
Source : The Cultural and Tourism Department of Karo Regency Table 4 Visitation of foreign tourist to Karo Regency in 2013
No Country Foreign tourist
1 Holland
322 2
Malaysia 404
3 Singapore
92 4
India 20
5 Germany
16 6
Australia 10
7 Swiss
2 8
England 8
9 China
40 10 France
11 11 Spain
1 12 USA
4 13 Thailand
63 14 Pakistan
2 15 Austria
12 16 Denmark
116 17 Japan
3 18 Brazil
2 Totality
1.128 Source : The Cultural and Tourism Department of Karo Regency
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Based on the data given above, it is clearly seen that Karo Regency has big potentials as tourism. Based on data given by the destination at Berastagi Cultural
and Tourism Department, there are five destination namely Gundaling, Sibayak MountLau Debuk-debuk, Mejuah-juah Garden, and the last Lau KawarSinabung
Mount.
3.2 Brief Description of Lau Kawar
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