In recent years, halal food tourism has established itself as one of the key elements of the enhancement, sustainability, and consolidation of halal tourist destinations. Along with it, Indonesia is one of the countries with the largest Muslim population in the world, which has teenagers who love culinary tourism. Based on that, the aim of this paper is to know and analyze the perception of teenagers on halal food as an option for culinary tourism. The research is a descriptive survey and uses frequency statistical analysis with random sampling method. To collect the data, the researchers spread questionnaires to respondents that consists of 92 teenagers in Jakarta and Bogor. The questionnaire is used to obtain the following data: (i) demographic characteristics of respondents (ii) teenagers' perception of halal food. The results are: (i) The demographic characteristics of respondents. (ii) Beliefs on halal food are closely related with religious commitment. (iii) The teenagers were informed about halal food by their families since primary school and then received additional information from the religious speech in radio and television. (iv) the teenagers have sufficient knowledge about halal food and agree to choose halal food as an option for culinary tourism.The findings will be useful for restaurants, café, or bistro who want to label themselves with halal logo and have customers who are teenagers.
Keywords-perception; teenagers and halal food; culinary tourism3rd International Seminar on Tourism (ISOT 2018)