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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background
Tourism has become an important commodity in Indonesia. The tourist attractions are scattered troughout the Indonesian archipelago. Indonesia is very
lucky to have many potential places. The potential places are related to natural resources that can be developed and used in all sides of life. Indonesia will get a
good income from tourism if the Government seriously maintains the tourism sector. Therefore, the Government should pay more attention to develop and
promote tourism in Indonesia .
“Tourism is one of new industrial types that have capability to make economic growth significantly in employment opportunities,
earnings improvement, standard of living, and other stimulation of productivity sectors. Thus, as a complicated sector, it consists of classical industries as well as
in handicraft souvenir industries.” Wahab, 1975 : 9
Indonesia has many tourist destinations. One of them is Central Java which offers various kinds of tourist attractions whether natural, cultural or man
made features. Solo is one of the cities in Central Java which has many potential
for its tourism and culture. Tourism and culture can be developed and served to attract people from many places in the world to visit the region, and also to know
what it is like. There are many interesting tourist attraction that can be visited by perpustakaan.uns.ac.id
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tourist such as Mangkunegaran Palace, Kasunanan Palace, Radya Pustaka Museum, Tawangmangu and lots more.
Tourism, of course, need lots of efforts to introduce the tourism elements. One of the tourism elements is promotion. Promotion is one way to improve Solo
tourism, and it can also increase the regional as well as the national income. The Government should make a good strategy to suggest the local government
especially to handle tourism in Solo. They should also inform the public about tourism attraction in Solo.
The writer did the job training at the event of the 6th Asean Para Games 2011 for about a month and it was done from November 7 to December 24 2011.
This international event was organized under the National Paralympic Committee Indonesia. In that event, the writer was a Liaison Officer, who assists clients from
the participants of the 6th Asean Para Games 2011. The job of the writer was also to promote the tourism and culture of Solo.
The writer is interested to describe how a Liaison Officer promote Solo’s
tourism and culture. Likewise, a Liaison Officer in an international event such as the 6th Asean Para Games is one of the proponent factors of tourism development
in Solo. The title of this final project is THE DUTIES OF THE 6TH ASEAN
PARA GAMES LIAISON OFFICER IN PROMOTING SOLO AS THE CITY OF TOURISM AND CULTURE.
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B. Objectives
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