Waterfront development is acknowledged as being significant to urban tourism planning, and ideally, the involvement of local community should be required in the development program. Although the residents' participation in many development projects has been widely discussed, it is found that there is little story of success concerning the implementation of residents' participation in waterfront development. This research attempts to answer the question of what and how the residents' perceptions toward the waterfront development in the context of participation, impacts and tourism development in Manado, Indonesia. The principles of local participation are assessed in a situation in which there is tension between the achievement of socio-economic benefits and the protection of environmental quality. This research involved fieldwork comprising questionnaire surveys, interviews and on-site observations that used to provide evidences of waterfront development in Manado and decision-making process that preceded it. This study reveals that waterfront development is a key element which determines the future of the city. The Manado waterfront is the focus of trade and business, as well as tourism and recreational activities for residents and visitors. The importance of the initiative demands that all residents should have an opportunity to participate in making the decisions which will greatly influence their future. Thus, broader and deeper participation would have been and would still be desirable in the Manado case.
There are many marine-based sports that have become universally popular as tourist attraction on waterfronts. This study aimed to examine the existence of marine and coastal-based sport tourism on the waterfront. They are dependent on certain types of coastal environment or condition including surfing, windsurfing, fishing, scuba diving, snorkeling, water-skiing and sailing and parasailing. Each of these activities has millions of regular participants. Tourism communities realize the value of marine sports attached to waterfront and marine sport events continue to grow in size and number. This study uses on-site observation and interviews to the people at and around Manado waterfront. The results show that a number of benefits can be realized by communities of all sizes that have developed a strategic marine sports tourism plan such as 1) economic development for the city with increased benefits to host community and to the city in general; 2) marine sports system development by hosting events that are strategically planned leading to increased capacity within the city's marine sport system; 3) social and community development with trained volunteers increases community pride and the opportunity to enrich facility infrastructure. The community needs to be well equipped with a high standard of knowledge, skills and attitude to be employed in marine sports tourism sectors.
This study aimed to determine the application of Lean Canvas to the development of Culinary and Gift & Souvenir SMEs in Likupang as a super priority tourism destination in North MinahasaRegency. A startup is an organization designed to find new business models to earn big profits. According to forbes.com, there are 90 % startups failed in their business due to many reasons such as failure in predicting market needs, internal conflicts, running out of funds, team disharmony and poor corporate patterns. A startup is an organization designed to create a product or service under uncertain conditions. Successful startups do not come from successful predecessors but can be learned and can be taught. The purpose of this study was to design a lean canvas business model that is suitable for SMEs in North Minahasa Regency then determine the Canvas Business model map for Culinary SMEs and Souvenir SMEs after that explain the use of the Canvas Business Model for Culinary SMEs and Souvenir SMEs. Culinary SMEs and Souvenir SMEs as one of the pioneers in the food and beverages as well as souvenirs and giveaways offer convenience and provide marketing that has been provided by using Lean Canvas in determining ideas and documentation in stepping and deciding the target market so that it will make SMEs and also customers from these SMEs will get a lot of convenience and save more costs. The application of business models such as Business Model Canvas and Lean Canvas in startups Culinary SMEs and Souvenir SMEs aims to represent the operation of company and it can illustrate the relationship from technology developers that can generate economic value. Lean Canvas is more problem-focused and as a tool for simplifying and documenting business models and measuring progress in the business.
Analysys of Manajerial Ability in The Family Business Performance with InformationTechnoly Skills as an Intervening Variable: (Study on Craetive Tourism Industry of Handycraft SME’s in North Sulawesi Province. This study examines the effect of manajerial ability on family business performance with information technology skill as an intervening variable of handicraft SME’s in North Sulawesi province. A good SME handycraft business performance will strengthen the existence of SME’s in the domestic market and upgrade the ability to compete equally in the global market. The population of this study is the handycraft business consisting of 77 handycraft business units. The sampling technique used is probability sampling with primary data sourced from SME business owner who know the condition of the use of information technology and managerial ability in managing the business. The method used to analyze the data is Structural Equation Model (SEM) with the aid of smatPls. The results of data analysis show that business performance can be seen from the managerial ability which is 90.60% and managerial ability for information technology at 94.10%. the result of Hypothesis testing show that managerial ability has a positive effect on family business performance and the manager’s ability has a positive effect on information technology skill, but information technology has no effect on business performance of handycratf SME’s in North Sulawesi Province.
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