Development of Marine Education Tour in Tidung Island, Jakarta, Indonesia

Abstract

The research aims to find a component of marine educational package tour at Tidung island such as the tourist attraction, tourist activity, accessibility, amenities, and organizations which can be developed as marine educational tour product to capture market opportunities in the student market segment. This study used qualitative research methods with reference to the concept of educational tours. The participant of this study includes the local tourism business, Marine National Park, the local tourism industry and the residence of Tidung Island. The data were collected by observation, interviews and analyzed on the basis of the model miles and huberman with triangulation of data. These results indicate that the tourism attraction of the Tidung island consisting of natural resources a socio-cultural community, marine educational tourism activity, accessibilities, amenities and organization in general education adequately and can be developed in accordance with General Spatial Plan in the area of Island Seribu in 2018, although there is short coming that need to fix, especially in term of management and the promotion marine education tourism in the Tidung Island. It is therefore necessary to synergize cross-sectoral cooperation efforts between government, private and community to manage marine educational tour activities such as the amenity, accessibility, attraction and information of Tidung Island.