Medan Tourism Research Articles

Enhancing Sustainable Tourism in Medan through Heritage-Based Development

This study aims to analyze the strategies for developing heritage tourism in Medan, focusing on the Kesawan area as a key destination. The research utilizes SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats), which helps identify the internal and external potential in the development of heritage tourism in the city. The results show that Kesawan’s strengths lie in its historical, cultural, and architectural value, as well as its strategic location, making it an attractive tourist destination. However, the weaknesses identified include inadequate infrastructure, limited human resources, and insufficient funding. Opportunities include the growing trend of cultural tourism and government support for heritage development. Nevertheless, threats such as uncontrolled urbanization, climate change, and economic pressures require particular attention in managing the area. The integration of heritage aspects in the city’s tourism master plan is progressing well, with the Medan City Tourism Development Master Plan (RIPPARKOT) outlining sustainable development strategies and policies. This study recommends improving infrastructure, enhancing human resources, and adopting effective marketing strategies to support sustainable heritage tourism development. Proper management could position Kesawan as a premier heritage tourism destination, contributing to the local economy.

Analysis of the Influence of Leadership Style on Employee Work Discipline at the Medan Tourism Academy

Basically, a leader must have capabilities to influence his subordinates to follow him and to be in accordance with the vision of the organization that has been stated. The implementation of good leadership styles may give positive contribution to the increase of employees’ work discipline. The good or bad leadership styles of a leader would affect the good or bad work discipline of employees who work under him. This study focuses on the problem of how leadership styles will affect work discipline of employees in Medan tourism academy. The purposes of the study are : 1) to determine and to analyse the impact of leadership styles on work discipline of employees in Medan tourism academy, 2) to determine and to analyse dominant variables which affect work discipline of employees in Akademi Pariwisata Medan. The hypothesis of the study is leadership styles affect work discipline of employees in Akademi Pariwisata Medan. There were 99 employees of Medan tourism academy considered as population. Using the Slovin formula, 50 samples were taken which were based upon the proportion of unit strata. The primary data were obtained through interviews and questionnaires, meanwhile the secondary data were obtained through the studies of documentation in the forms of official documents issued by Akademi Pariwisata Medan. The method of data analysis was descriptive statistical analysis using multiple linear regression. The results of the study showed that simultaneously the leadership styles (authoritarian, participatory, delegative) affect work discipline of employees in Medan tourism academy. The partial test showed that participatory style of leadership was significantly dominant influential on work discipline of employees in Medan tourism academy, followed by delegative style of leadership. However, authoritarian style of leadership was not significantly influential on work discipline of employees, in accordance with test results of coefficient value t count < t table.

The Correlation Between Self-Efficacy and Family Support with Adversity Intelligence in Married Female Employees at the Medan Tourism Polytechnic

The Correlation Between Self-Efficacy and Family Support with Adversity Intelligence in Married Female Employees at the Medan Tourism Polytechnic

The Correlation Between Interpersonal Communication and Optimism With Adversity Quotient for Non-Permanent Employees of the Medan Tourism Polytechnic

The Correlation Between Interpersonal Communication and Optimism With Adversity Quotient for Non-Permanent Employees of the Medan Tourism Polytechnic

Designing An Attendance Application With A Web-Based Face Camera

This research discuss the design of a web-based student attendance application aimed at facilitating student attendance at the Medan Tourism Polytechnic, a vocational higher education institution supervised by the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy of the Republic of Indonesia. The Medan Tourism Polytechnic is a state university focusing on providing education for the tourism and hospitality industry in Indonesia. The Three Pillars of Higher Education in this field were established by the Medan Tourism Polytechnic with the objective of disseminating tourism-based education, instilling student discipline, and fostering Indonesian personality traits. Currently, the Medan Tourism Polytechnic employs a semi-manual attendance procedure using Microsoft Excel. This attendance application was developed with a database created using PHP and MySQL programming languages. The research findings indicate that students can perform self-attendance using facial recognition technology, which would make attendance more efficient and reduce fraud. Furthermore, this research demonstrates and anticipates that more effective attendance methods can enhance student discipline

Pelatihan Penggunaan Quizziz sebagai Media Assessment Pembelajaran bagi Guru di SMK Pariwisata Imelda Medan

One application that can be used to help teachers evaluate student learning is Quizizz. The partners involved in this service program are teachers at the Imelda Medan Tourism Vocational School whose knowledge about the use of Information Technology in providing learning evaluations to students is inadequate. This activity is located at the Imelda Medan Tourism Vocational School, East Medan sub-district, Medan City. This activity applies an in-house training method by providing information technology literacy training to support learning assessments to increase teachers' knowledge and skills regarding the creation, use and optimization of the use of Quizizz as a learning evaluation. This knowledge can be used in the learning process to make it more interesting and combined with conventional learning techniques. During the training, the service team provided materials and tutorials on using Quizizz. The results obtained from this activity were an increase in the skills and knowledge of teachers at Imelda Medan Tourism Vocational School regarding the use of information technology (Quizziz) in making learning assessments in support of the Merdeka Belajar program.

Durian Culinary Products Based on Local Food as a Culinary Tourism Attraction in Medan City

As the capital of North Sumatra, Medan City has an image that is quite attached to durian culinary destinations. This can be seen from the many culinary businesses that make durian their flagship product so that it can become an icon of culinary tourism in Medan. This study aims to identify the characteristics of the attractiveness, management, and promotion mix of culinary tourism products in three leading durian outlets in Medan City: Ucok Durian, Pelawi Durian, and Durian Ucok Tanjung. The method used in this study is exploratory qualitative with data collection techniques using in-depth interviews, observations, literature studies and documentation. The advertising promotion mix involves social media, print media, electronic media, and display signs. The sales promotion method is offered through free trials, discounts, and attractive promos during the durian season. Managers carry out The personal selling method whenever they fill in trade shows and festivals. The public relations method is carried out through collaboration with durian agents, being a seminar and media resource person, and becoming a sponsor for an activity.

Development of Employability Skills of Hospitality Students through Interactive Multimedia Approaches at Medan Tourism Polytechnics

The article aims to analyze how to develop employability skills for Medan tourism polytechnic students through a multimedia system approach at the Medan tourism polytechnic. By interviewing several academics at the Medan Polytechnic tourism Department, we have obtained valuable data, including how academicians prepare students to develop their working skills in the hospitality world with a technological approach. We designed this study qualitatively with semi-structured interviews and reviewed secondary data. We finally got some valuable input. The coordinators and lecturers of the Medan Tourism Polytechnic have developed the abilities of their students who are ready to enter the world of a career in the future. The skills they prepared include, for example, being flexible workers, having industry awareness then, having attention to detail skills, time management, interpersonal skills and communication skills, and so on. Hopefully, these findings will become input for developing help studies and labeling skills for future students. Keywords: Employability Skills, Multimedia Interactive, Multimedia Approaches

Application of Cruscal Algorithm in Determining the Shortest Routes Tourism in Medan

With technological advances today, the application of science in mathematics is becoming increasingly broad, including determining the optimal path on a path using a graph. As we know, the city of Medan and its surroundings is one of the tourist destinations in Indonesia, which has many interesting places to visit. Tourists inside and outside have even planned to visit various tourism centers in the city of Medan. With so many tourist objects to be visited, a graph will be very helpful in determining the paths that have the shortest path, the path that produces the least cost, and the path that is the most optimal. Kruskal's algorithm is an algorithm in graph theory that looks for the minimum spanning tree for a weighted and connected graph. Kruskal's algorithm is one of the algorithms for determining the shortest route from one tourist attraction to another.

Implementasi Text Mining Terhadap Analisis Sentimen Masyarakat Dunia Di Twitter Terhadap Kota Medan Menggunakan K-Fold Cross Validation Dan Naïve Bayes Classifier

The city of Medan is one of the largest cities in Indonesia which has tourist charm, culinary and also supporting facilities and infrastructure that are quite adequate in the city, and of course will be ogled by foreign or foreign tourism. So it is necessary to do research in order to find out how the public sentiment towards tourism in the city of Medan, whether the majority of the world community considers it positive or negative. The response of the world community regarding Medan tourism is obtained from the Application Programming Interface (API) on Twitter because social media has a lot of users in the world. Indonesia has even reached 19.5 million users out of a total of 300 million users worldwide. In this study, one part of the Text Mining algorithm is text preprocessing, the text preprocessing used is case folding, tokenizing, stopwords, and stemming. For the preprocessing stemming, the snowball stemmer algorithm is used, while the analysis of the text data classification uses the Naïve Bayes Classifier algorithm and to partition the data the K-Fold Cross Validation method will be used. The data used in this study is a collection of tweets about tourism in the city of Medan on December 1, 2019 until December 8, 2019. Data is obtained from the Twitter API (Application Programming Interface) as many as 2000 tweets. Extracting data from Twitter via Twitter API (Application Programming Interface) using RStudio as a console for the data retrieval process

Translation Quality Assessment on Medan City Tourism Official Web Pages

This research was conducted to analyze the quality of the translation on the Medan City Tourism web pages. In this research, the researcher used the translation quality assessment model proposed by Nababan et al. The TQA model by Nababan et al. focuses on three aspects, namely accuracy, acceptability, and readability. The final result of measuring these three aspects is the total value for the quality of the translation on a scale of 1-3. This research has the objectives to: 1) analyze the accuracy of the Indonesian- English translation of the Medan Tourism web page 2) to analyze the acceptability of the Indonesian-English translation of the Medan Tourism web page 3) to analyze the readability of the Indonesian-English translation of the Medan Tourism web page 4) to analyze the total quality of the Indonesian-English translation of the Medan Tourism web pages. There were three professional translators as the raters who helped in assessing the text of the Medan City Tourism web pages. In general, the results of this research indicate that the translation quality of the Medan City Tourism web page is accurate, quite acceptable, and quite readable. The score for the accuracy aspect is 2.7, for the acceptability aspect is 2.2, for the readability aspect is 2.2 and the total quality of the translation is 2.4.

Pengaruh Pelatihan Kerja Terhadap Kinerja Karyawan Pada Akademi Pariwista Medan Hotel School Medan


 Facing change and competition both at the national and international levels, then employees must adapt to changes in technology, such as the emergence of new technology or new work methods in the company. Medan Hotel School Tourism Academy, which is a private tertiary institution where employees in carrying out their duties and responsibilities still require training from the university as well as from the Higher Education Service Institution (LLDIKTI). But the problem in this study is training has an effect on improving employee performance at the Medan Hotel School of Tourism Academy, Medan? This type of research is a qualitative descriptive study. Methods of data collection are done through interviews, documentation and questionnaires. The number of samples in this study were 16 people with the determination technique is total sampling. The hypothesis in this study is to estimate the effect of job training on employee performance at the Medan Hotel School of Tourism, Medan. 1. Job training has an effect on employee performance at the Medan Hotel School Tourism Academy, Medan. 2. The most dominant indicator of job training in influencing the performance of employees at the Medan Hotel School Tourism Academy, Medan is that after participating in training, employees are able to complete work more easily and quickly, 3. The employee performance indicator that has the most dominant impact is the job training conducted by Medan Tourism Academy Hotel School, Medan are employees in carrying out and completing their work on time.

The Effectiveness of Public Speaking Learning Media Based on Digital Multimodal in Indonesian Language Courses at Politeknik Pariwisata Medan

Digital media or often referred to as new media (new digital media) is an electronic media stored in digital format (as opposed to analog format) which can be used as storage, transmit, and receive digitalized information. Digital media is the internet-based media using computers and sophisticated mobile phones. Digital media as internet-based media has the characteristics of (1) computer-based technology; (2) its characteristics are hybrid, not dedicated, flexible; (3) interactive potential; (4) public and private functions; (5) non-strict regulations; (6) interrelation; (7) ubiquitous / independent of location; (8) can be accessed by individuals as communicators. (4) public and private functions; (5) non-strict regulations; (6) interrelation; (7) ubiquitous / independent of location; (8) can be accessed by individuals as communicators. (4) public and private functions; (5) non-strict regulations; (6) interrelation; (7) ubiquitous / independent of location; (8) can be accessed by individuals as communicators. This development research will be carried out at the Medan Tourism Polytechnic which is located at Jalan Rumah Sakit Haji No. 12, Kenanga Baru, Percut Sei Tuan District, and Deliserdang Regency. This Polytechnic has seven Study Programs, namely one Diploma 4 (D-4) Study Program and six Diploma 3 (D-3) Study Programs. The seven study programs are (1) D-4 Hospitality Management, (2) D-3 Room Division Management, (3) D-3 Food Management Management, (4) D-3 Catering Management, (5) D-3 Patiseri Management, (6) Tourism Planning and Marketing Management, and (7) D-3 Travel Tour. This digital multimodal-based public speaking learning media is very effective to use to improve learning outcomes. The learning outcomes after applying this product were at an average of 89.68%, meanwhile the learning outcomes before the application of learning media were at an average (55.93%).

The Riverfront Conservatory (Conservatory Design in Kualanamu Region with Futuristic Architecture Approach)

A conservatory is both a tourism center and a place for plant preservation in which it is considered to be able to respond to both of the problems that Medan is facing, which are lack of feasibility of tourism and green space. With its function, the design aims to improve Medan tourism as well as to provide green space for the local community. The method used in designing this project is data collection through field surveys and literature studies. The location of the project is at Kualanamu Region as the need for the development of a tourism center in Kualanamu district as for the enhancement of the tourism becomes the busiest airport in Sumatera Utara. To reflect the concept of the conservatory, the theme of the project is futuristic architecture. As a large scale glass house, the main problem of the design is how to maintain the air temperature stable inside the building. The idea is to replace the use of glass with ETFE Panel, which is made from plastic and weighing only 1% of the glass. The project site is located near the river to support the green space concept. With various approaches towards design, this project is expected to be able to provide new opportunities for Medan tourism.

Minat Siswa Sekolah Menengah Kejuruan Memilih Program Studi Meeting, Incentive, Conference, Exhibition di Politeknik Negeri Medan

This paper wants to explain whether vocational students in the field of tourism in Medan are aware of the MICE industry (Meeting, Incentive, Conference, Exhibition) and MICE study programs in Politeknik Negeri Medan (Polmed). Furthermore, how is the interest of tourism vocational school students in Medan before and after being given a stimulus. The research uses descriptive method with quantitative approach. Data collection was carried out through a survey technique using a questionnaire. The respondent is tourism vocational school student in class which is spread in 15 vocational schools in Medan. The results showed that from 150 respondents surveyed, only 52% knew about the MICE industry, even though MICE was related to tourism. Furthermore, only 32% of respondents are aware of the existence of the MICE study program in Polmed. The low knowledge of students about MICE Polmed study program, effect the low interest of respondents in choosing this study program that is only by 8%. However, increased interest was seen when respondents had received stimulus in the form of information about the MICE Polmed study program profile which was displayed using media: books and videos. From 8% of respondents who were initially interested in choosing the MICE Polmed study program, after being given a stimulus it increased to 73.66%.

Performing Art and Culture Center Hamdan

Performing Art and Culture Center is a building that functions as a center of activity to accommodate the creativity of the community in the field of art as well as public space facilities in the city of Medan. The center for arts and culture is expected to be able to respond to the problem of Medan City in providing community space and informal education facilities so that this function aims as a community space that can accommodate artistic activities with adequate facilities. The method used in designing this project is a data collection through field surveys and literature studies. This project is one of the functions in the revitalization of the Integrated Hamdan Area in Medan Maimun District. To reflect the concept of revival and as an innovative design, the theme of this project is contemporary architecture. This project will be a non-formal education facility that is educational and entertaining. With this function, Performing Arts and Culture can increase tourism in Medan, a place to create value for the creativity of the community, increase the sensitivity of the people of Medan city towards traditional and modern cultural arts, and make Medan a cultured city.

TRANSLATION TECHNIQUES IN MEDAN AND DELI SERDANG TOURISM BOOKLET

This study aims to find out the translation techniques, the dominant one used by the translator in translating the booklets and the process of translating the dominant technique. It uses the theory of Molina and Albir, which are adaptation, amplication, borrowing, calque, compensation, description, discursive creation, established equivalent, generalization, linguistic amplication, linguistic compression, literal translation, modulation, particularization, reduction, substitution, transposition, and variation. In analyzing the data, the research was conducting by using mixed method research which involved collecting both quantitative and qualitative data. The data were taken from “Medan and Deli Serdang Tourism Booklet” which consist of Bahasa and translate into English. In Medan Tourism Booklet the result of literal translation 136 sentences (81,43%) belongs to dominant technique that applied in the booklet, followed by transposition 13 sentences (7,78%), adaptation 8 sentences (4,80%), borrowing 3 sentences (1,80%), amplification 2 sentences (1,20%), description 2 sentences (1,20%), reduction 2 sentences (1,20%) and generalization 1 sentence (0,60%). In Deli Serdang Tourism Booklet the result of literal translation 61 sentences (79,22%) belongs to dominant technique that applied in the booklet, followed by transposition 7 sentences (9,09%), reduction 3 sentences (3,89%), discursive creation 2 sentences (2,60%), particularization 2 sentences (2,60%), adaptation 1 sentence (1,30%) and borrowing 1 sentence (1,30%). There are three process in translating the dominant technique 1) analysis, 2) transfer and 3) restructuring.

Sistem Informasi Wisata Kuliner di Kota Medan Berbasis Web

The advancement of information technology today is fueling the growth in the number of internet users. In the business world, the role of technology is very important, and it can be said that it has become a primary need for entrepreneurs in this period. Likewise about culinary that has used the internet network to present a variety of good information from information on place, taste, presentation and price in the field of information technology. But for culinary information in the city of Medan on a website, while it is still incomplete and there is no website that specializes in culinary tourism in Medan and its reservations. Therefore, it is necessary to design a web-based culinary tourism information system in Medan City to make it easier for people to find culinary varieties in the city of Medan.

Foreign tourist’s attitude to the elements of the developing of tourism in Medan, Indonesia

Foreign tourist’s attitude to the elements of the developing of tourism in Medan, Indonesia

Museum and Gallery of Contemporary Art Medan (Contemporary Architecture)

The Museum is a place to see showpieces as art, artifacts, and other cultural relics. The purpose of the museum is not only for education but also as entertainment. This design takes the case study of a contemporary art museum. This museum has a gallery, which function is to sell and auction the contemporary art. This Museum and Gallery designed with contemporary architecture style, suitable for the main function of the building which is museum and gallery of contemporary art. The museum and gallery will also help to develop the tourism in Medan and to be an education facility to the public. There are few steps made in the process of completing the design; the first one is by collecting data from the literature, books, journal, magazine, the internet, survey, and interview. And from the data collected, the design for Museum and Gallery of Contemporary Art will be produced.