Judul: Tourism Product Diversification in Samosir Island, Samosir Regency, North Sumatera Province
Abstrak: Pulau Samosir adalah daerah tujuan wisata yang berada di tengah Danau Toba, dimana Danau Toba merupakan danau terdalam di Asia dan danau vulkanik terbesar di dunia. Danau Toba memiliki luas 1103 km2 dan luas Pulau Samosir 647 km. Pulau samosir memiliki banyak potensi wisata seperti potensi wisata alam, sejarah, dan seni budaya. Potensi wisata ini sebagian sudah dikembangkan menjadi produk wisata, akan tetapi produk tersebut masih bersifat massal dan belum spesifik, oleh karena itu produk wisata tersebut masih memerlukan suatu pengembangan dan penganekaragaman. Cara ataupun strategi yang dapat dilakukan untuk meningkatkan produk wisata di Samosir adalah melalui diversifikasi produk wisata. Tujuan diversifikasi produk wisata ini adalah menambah serta meningkatkan variasi jenis produk wisata. Penelitian dilaksanakan pada tanggal 11 Oktober - 26 Desember 2010 di tiga Kecamatan di Kabupaten samosir, yaitu Kecamatan Pangururan, Sianjur Mula-Mula, dan Simanindo. Pengumpulan data menggunakan metode observasi lapang melalui wawancara, kuisioner, dan studi pustaka, penelusuran dokumen. Objek wisata di Pulau Samosir terdiri dari wisata alam, sejarah, dan seni budaya. ODTW yang sedang dikembangkan adalah Hotspring, Tele, Pasir Putih, batu sawan, pantai Ambarita, dan lain sebagainya. Produk wisata yang sudah ada adalah wisata keliling Pulau Samosir, wisata di kawasan Hotspring, wisata di Pasir Putih, Tele, wisata seni budaya di Museum Hutabolon, Tomok, Tuktuk, Desa Lumban Suhi, wisata sejarah di Cagar Budaya Sianjur Mula-Mula, wisata di Danau Sidihoni, dan wisata ke air terjun Bungalom. Pengunjung yang diwawancarai menginginkan adanya peningkatan berbagai fasilitas mulai dari sarana dan prasarana termasuk fasilitas dalam melakukan aktivitas wisata, peningkatan akomodasi dan restoran di kawasan wisata seperti Hotspring, Pasir Putih, pengembangan souvenir khas tiap objek wisata, peningkatan pengelolaan wisata, keamanan, kenyamanan, dan kebersihan kawasan wisata. Selain itu pihak Pemda juga memiliki rencana dalam pengembangan produk-produk wisata, yaitu termasuk pengembangan objek wisata, peningkatan sarana dan prasarana wisata, peningkatan pengelolaan objek wisata, serta peningkatan kesenian budaya masyarakat Samosir. Diversifikasi produk wisata yang dapat disarankan adalah pada kawasan Hotspring: wisata petualang dan wisata ilmiah, pada Kawasan Tele: ekowisata dan wisata ilmiah, pada Desa Simanindo: wisata budaya, pada Desa Sianjur Mula-Mula: wisata pendidikan sejarah dan budaya Suku Batak, wisata geologi, wisata alam-spiritual, dan wisata ilmiah. Untuk Desa Tomok: wisata alam, pada Desa Tuktuk Siadong: wisata alam, sejarah dan seni budaya, pada Desa Lumban Suhi: wisata seni budaya, sedangkan untuk Pasir Putih: rekreasi alam Pasir Putih.
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Judul: Pengembangan Promosi Wisata Danau Toba di Kabupaten Samosir, Provinsi Sumatera Utara
Abstrak: Samosir Regency was established based on Act number 36/2003. Tourism is one of leading sectors for accelerating regional development (Tourism, Art and Cultural Agency of Samosir Regency 2006). Samosir Regency had a great tourism potentials, one of is Toba Lake were with it’s beautiful Island of Samosir located in the middle of the lake. The objectives of this research were to identify media promotions within the area and Samosir Regency and to measure the effectiveness of promotion. This research was expected to provide current information on tourism objects within the regency and to increase number of tourist. Research was conducted at Samosir Regency, Province of North Sumatera from July to September 2009. The location of research consisted of three subdistricts, i.e Pangururan, Sianjur Mula-Mula and Simanindo. Tourism sites that were studied were Pantai Pasir Putih Nature Tourism, Aek Rangat Nature Tourism and Tuktuk Siadong Nature Tourism, Cultural and Archaeological Tourism of Batu Sawan and Batu Hobon. The materials that were used consisted of documents, questioners, interview guide, Likert statement, recorder and digital camera. Collected data comprised of primary and secondary data. Primary data included type, technique, subject and targets of promotion. These data were collected through interview with the community, local government and NGO’s and questioners were distributed to visitors. Secondary data consisted of general condition of research location such as history, location and total area, topography, demography condition, accessibility, climate, social and culture conditions, potentials of tourism objects. The collected data were analyzed using EPIC Model and descriptive analysis. Result of the research showed that most of the promotion technique were mouth to mouth with the following results in Pantai Pasir Putih (76.67%), Aek Rangat (50%), Batu Sawan (56.67%), Batu Hobon (76.67%), and Tuktuk Siadong (66.67%). The results showed that media promotions were effective in three tourism sites i.e 2.45 for Pasir Putih, 2.51 for Aek Rangat and 2.57 for Tuktuk Siadong. The media promotions in Batu Hobon and Batu Sawan were regarded as sufficient with score of 2.17 and 2.13. The recommendations for media promotion development that can be run by local government included determining promotion target in each tourism sites, arranging effective promotion through leaflet, booklet, magazine, television, homepage and radio to raise attention, interest, desire and action from the tourists. Radio could be an effective mean of promotion for Batu Sawan since these areas are intended especially for the local community and talking into consideration the time of on air which should suit the time where most of people are listening the radio.
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Judul: Graphology Analysis Based on Letter a and t Using Perceptron.
Abstrak: Graphology or handwriting analysis is a method of identifying, analyzing, evaluating, and understanding personality through the strokes and patterns revealed by handwriting. A person who can analyze handwriting is called a graphologist. A graphologists can be subjective in their assesments different graphologist can have different analysis of the same handwriting. Therefore, a computer technology may help to minimize the subjectivity. This research used perceptron to analyze personality based on handwriting. Perceptron is one method of neural network. This research analyze two letters to letter a and t image. Letter a are represented by 135 images, consisting of 81 images as training data and 54 images as testing data. There are 150 images used for t images, consisting of 90 images as training data and 60 images as testing data.There are 5 experiments consisting of 2 experiments for letter a and 3 experiments for letter t. The result is the character of each class letter a and t where each parameters there are 3 classes. The accuracy of letter t and letter a was 55% and 88.89% respectively.
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