The longest sunset of the South Sulawesi: coastal resource utilization as city branding Pinrang

Kabupaten Pinrang has very large coastal potential but has not been utilized optimally. RIPDA Pinrang Tourism Office offers The Longest Sunset of South Sulawesi as tourism identity by utilizing 97 km of coastline facing West. Therefore, there is the potential to be used as a citybranding strategy an...

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Published inIOP conference series. Earth and environmental science Vol. 216; no. 1; pp. 12026 - 12029
Main Authors Mihardja, E J, Widiastuti, T, Agustini, P M, Adriati, F
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Bristol IOP Publishing 20.12.2018
Subjects
Coastal resources
Ecotourism
Resource utilization
Tourism
Sulawesi
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Summary:Kabupaten Pinrang has very large coastal potential but has not been utilized optimally. RIPDA Pinrang Tourism Office offers The Longest Sunset of South Sulawesi as tourism identity by utilizing 97 km of coastline facing West. Therefore, there is the potential to be used as a citybranding strategy and ecotourism development. This study uses document study, focus group discussion and indepth interviews to identify TOWS of the Longest Sunset of The South Sulawesi slogan as the citybranding of Pinrang Regency. The results show that there were the opportunities and also challenges that must be faced in utilizing coastal resources, especially in the 'escort' process of Pinrang Regency's tourism ident.mity to become a city branding of the area.
ISSN:1755-1307
1755-1315
1755-1315
DOI:10.1088/1755-1315/216/1/012026