Karo Ethnomedicine Tourism Development: Opportunities and Challenges

Sabariah Bangun, Nurbani

2019

Abstract

This paper explains the analysis of opportunities and challenges of how forest biodiversity and traditional medicine from generation to generation become a potential for ethnomedicine tourism that can be developed in Karo District. Based on the results of the field study, to date there have been 185 developers of traditional medicine in the Karo District Health Office. Conventional markets in Karo District also have certain areas where traditional healers gather to peddle their wares. The Karo Regency Tourism Office is currently in the process of discussing the formulation of a 'traditional healer village' in one of the tourism development programs. However, the Karo Regency government also has various obstacles in the development of ethnomedicine tourism related to the procedure for obtaining a business permit and standardization of traditional healers which is still difficult to do for its products and treatment techniques. The procedure of establishing 'village tourism' based on traditional medicine is also still constrained by bureaucracy that is still unclear regulations.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Bangun S. and Nurbani. (2019). Karo Ethnomedicine Tourism Development: Opportunities and Challenges.In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social and Political Development - Volume 1: ICOSOP 3, ISBN 978-989-758-472-5, pages 334-340. DOI: 10.5220/0010019203340340

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icosop 319,
author={Sabariah Bangun and Nurbani},
title={Karo Ethnomedicine Tourism Development: Opportunities and Challenges},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social and Political Development - Volume 1: ICOSOP 3,},
year={2019},
pages={334-340},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010019203340340},
isbn={978-989-758-472-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social and Political Development - Volume 1: ICOSOP 3,
TI - Karo Ethnomedicine Tourism Development: Opportunities and Challenges
SN - 978-989-758-472-5
AU - Bangun S.
AU - Nurbani.
PY - 2019
SP - 334
EP - 340
DO - 10.5220/0010019203340340