Motivasi Wisatawan Mancanegara Berkunjung Ke Taman Nasional Kelimutu, Kabupaten Ende, Provinsi Nusa Tenggara Timur

Abstract

East Nusa Tenggara Province is one of the tourist destinations in Indonesia, by offering various kinds of
tourism objects both natural attractions, beach tourism, and cultural tourism. One of the tourist destinations in East
Nusa Tenggara that is rich in tourism objects and attractions is Kelimutu National Park Ende Regency, Flores, NTT,
noted from the Kelimutu National Park Hall, that tourist visits continue to increase from 2014 to 2018, for the past
five (5) years. From this it is an interesting thing to be used as a research entitled Motivation of Foreign Tourists
Visiting Kelimutu National Park. With the aim of this study to obtain profiles and motivations of foreign tourists
visiting the Kelimutu National Park. The method of this study uses data types namely qualitative and quantitative
data (by carrying out 93 questionnaire distributions to foreign tourists). The results of this study are profiles of
foreign tourists visiting Kelimutu National Park based on the Trip Descriptor and Tourist Descriptor which are seen
from the characteristics of Socio demography, Geography, Psycography. Then the motivation of foreign tourists
visiting the Kelimutu National Park is based on the types of tourists, namely Allocentric.
Keywords : Tourist Motivation, Kelimutu National Park, East Nusa Tenggara