Gastronomy Tourism Attraction in Ternate City

摘要

Indonesia has a target of tourist arrivals in 2019, a total of 20 million tourists to visit. Ternate City is the one of government target to increase tourist visitation. They saw that this city has a a variety of tourism products especially the gastronomy who was known influences spice in Europe since 1510. This study was designed to find Ternate featured gastronomy that deserves to become gastronomy tourism destination. The approach used in this study is a descriptive exploratory study, contain description of the data in tabular form and narrative facts corresponding field. The primary data obtained from interviews, observations and focus groups involving all tourism stakeholders. The results obtained showed that Ternate has a varied potential gastronomy with very full featured. This city has potential gastronomy which is presented for ceremonial purposes that have not been commercialized. The people of Ternate saw five menu that can be used as icon and attraction such as Papeda, Gohu Fish, Fufu Smoked Fish, Soru Fish Soup, Garu Vegetable. The promotions and strategies to educate travelers about the gastronomy profile need to be done to make the maximum of the Ternate featured foods familiar to tourists.