Effects of Mount Sinabung Volcanic Eruption on Tourism in Indonesia

EFFECTS OF MOUNT SINABUNG VOLCANIC ERUPTION ON TOURISM IN
INDONESIA
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Executive summary
The recent years on a global economic perspective, tourism has grown tremendously thanks to
the increase in globalization that has promoted diversification and interaction of different
cultures. This has prompted the economy to be a principal pillar to the growth and stability of the
economy globally and the development of economies that have strategic and sustainable tourism
industry, such a region is Indonesia. The country recent growth and developments is attributed to
the constant growth of the country as one of the best tourist destination especially from power
tourist exporters such as China and Australia. However, its beautiful destinations, landmarks,
historical sites and beautiful islands could be in jeopardy due to the rising cases of eruption of
volcanic mountains. The most recent eruption and the largest in history is the Mt Sinabug early
this year that saw the evacuation of over 30,000 individuals from their homes. This paper talks in
detail the effects of Mt Sinabug eruption on tourism and hospitality industry by conducting a
literature review and analysis based on a perspective of an interview conducted on Mr. Shuren
Ulaganathan the guest relations manager of the Fullerton Bay Hotel (F&B)

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Table of Contents
Effects of mount sinabung Volcanic eruption on tourism in Indonesia..........................................4
Introduction......................................................................................................................................4
literature review and analysis..........................................................................................................5
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................9
Reference.......................................................................................................................................10

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Effects of mount sinabung Volcanic eruption on tourism in Indonesia
Introduction
Tourism in recent years has experienced growth and sustainable development as well as
successful diversification making it the fastest growing economic sector globally. This has made
the tourism industry to also grow as a channel for international currency exchange making it one
of the principal sectors that sustain the global economy and regions or country whose tourism
industry is booming. Such a country is Indonesia where its currently considered as the new ‘star’
for the county’s economy at the end of the financial year of 2017. According to the minister of
tourism in Indonesia, Ariel Yahya, the tourism industry creates employment for their citizens as
well as contribute immensely to the country’s GDP and foreign exchanges which in the long runs
to boost the country economy (Andreastuti et al, 2017).
Indonesia is widely known to have many tourist attraction sites such as landmarks and beautiful
islands which have over 14million foreign tourists into the country last year. However, there are
some tourist sites that could pose a threat to tourism in the country and its geographical locations
immensely such as Mt Sinabung which is volcanic (Erfurt-cooper, Sigurdsson and Lopes, 2015).
The mountain is considered as a complementary attraction site as many tourists visit the province
due to lake Tobias recent volcanic eruptions which by far is considered the largest in history has
caused a drastic dent on the tourism success in the region which will be discussed further in this
paper.