Proceedings of the 3rd International Seminar on Tourism (ISOT 2018)

Edu-Tourism: An Alternative of Tourism Destination Based on Geography Literacy

Authors
Siti Hasanah, Mamat Ruhimat
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Siti Hasanah
Available Online June 2019.
Keywords
edutourism; geographic literacy.
Abstract

Tourism activity producing new learning experience that combining education with tourism is called edu-tourism. Edu-tourism objects consist of ecotourism, cultural heritage, tourism of village/ farming, and student exchange among educational institutions. Geography literacy is knowledge of geography ability to make a decision based on space. This article aims to describe a process of man to make decision over some types of tourism destination that could give learning experience from the visited tourism objects. Method used is descriptive qualitative with documentation study techniques from relevant references. This research results in the sample of destination option, from nature to cultural tourism that will increase the insight which based on geographic literacy.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 3rd International Seminar on Tourism (ISOT 2018)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
June 2019
ISBN
978-94-6252-732-4
ISSN
2352-5398
Copyright
© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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