PENGARUH KEBERADAAN WISATAWAN ASING TERHADAP PERKEMBANGAN BISNIS PARIWISATA MASYARAKAT DI TUKTUK SIADONG

Abstract

Tuktuk Siadong has become a recreational area since 1960. Tuktuk as one of
the most famous tourism destination in North Sumatra makes Tuktuk not only visited
by local tourist, but also foreigner. In Tuktuk, most of people use Batak as their main
language, and English or other foreign language as their secondary languages, but
only a few of them can speak Indonesia well. Indirectly, we can say that the local
condition is still maintained, but nationality is abandoned. It is good to keeping
traditionality, as Dove said, it’s a supporting factor of development. But we should
remember that national language however should be mastered. This research also find
that most of local people start changing their couple preference, preferring foreigner
to their fellow local. It caused beside their thought that people who marry foreigner
having a higher social status, also by their desire to evolve their business, asset and
some.