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Literature Review
author:ayu

Indonesia has many tourist attractions. Today, there are many media that we can use to promote it, such as websites, advertisements, or interactive CD, but not all of the tourist attractions have good media promotion. For example, Pangandaran beach in Ciamis, West Java. Actually, Pangandaran beach is one of the beautiful beaches in West Java, but Pangandaran does not have a good media promotion to promote the beach. Based on that problem, I want to make an interactive CD as a media promotion of Pangandaran Beach. Moreover, to make an interactive CD about Pangandaran beach, I have to analyze several sources as references to support my idea. However, I have analyzed five sources to support my idea and to find the gaps about my product to the other.
The first source that I have analyzed is about CD Interaktif sebagai media promosi objek wisata di kawasan Ciwidey. This is a final project report written by Darmansyah. He was an UPW student (2007) in POLBAN. He observes directly to make his final project, and he also does some interviews to support his idea. In his final project, he describes all about Ciwidey using interactive CD. He writes about profile, accommodations, and facilities in Ciwidey. Actually, he makes a final project report about interactive CD of Ciwidey, because he thinks that the visitors of Ciwidey becomes less and less, so he wants to make an interactive CD to promote Ciwidey as a tourist attraction in Bandung. However, in his final project report, he does not input the video of Ciwidey even though in the proccess of making this interactive CD he talks that he creates a video about Ciwidey.
The second source that I have analyzed is about video promotion of Indonesia. The title of this video is ”AIESEC Indonesia NEC 2011 Promotion video.” I took this source from the internet. This video shows us about Indonesia. However, this video just shows us the picture (slide shows) about Indonesia without music or other sounds. We just see the picture of Indonesia and read everything about Indonesia. I think it will be good if the video has a narrator to explain each place.
The third sources are about a promotional video of Indonesia that I have taken from YouTube. The title of the video is “A Country of Thousand Faces.” In this promotional video, the narrator tells us that Indonesia is a beautiful place in the world. The video shows us about some parts in Indonesia without details of description about the locations of the place. For example, the video shows us about Borobudur temple, but there are no descriptions about the location of Borobudur temple. I think, it will be better if the narrator also tells us about the locations of each place. It will be more effective and make us easier to go there.
The next source is still video promotion of Indonesia that I have taken from YouTube. The title of the video is “Indonesia Tourism Promotion Board.” This video describes several islands of Indonesia such as Bali, Sumatra, Java, and other islands in Indonesia. Besides, the video also gives the complete descriptions about each place. For example, when the video talks about Sumatra, there are complete descriptions about location, culture and handicrafts from Sumatra. The weakness of this video is that there are no descriptions about Pangandaran beach even though Pangandaran beach is a part of Java Island. Overall, I think this video promotion is good as a model of my final project.
The last source is about “ Demo CD Interaktif The Zoo.” I took this source from the internet. This video has a good and simple animation design. Besides, the video also has a good music. This video shows us about several kinds of animals in the zoo using interactive CD. Moreover, he also gives the description about the facilities in the zoo. The weakness of this video is that there are no detail descriptions about each animal itself. The author just shows us the picture and the name of the animals. I think it will be good if the interactive CD also input the video of the zoo.
After I analyzed five sources that related to my topic, I think all of these sources can support my idea. I can know about the weaknesses of each sources, such as there are no video included in the interactive CD in Darmansyah final Project report and in “ Demo CD Interaktif The Zoo.” Besides, there is no details description of each place in each promotional video. Moreover, there is no narrator who describes everything about Indonesia in ”AIESEC Indonesia NEC 2011 Promotion video.”
I think my topic is very usefull to promote Pangandaran as a tourist attraction in West Java. I will use Darmansyah final project to be an example of my project. However, there are some differences about my project with Darmansyah final project, which is I will input the video of the beach in my product. I will take the video of “Indonesia Tourism Promotion Board” as the example of my video in my interactive CD. So, in my final project, I will include the profiles, facilities, accommodations, handicrafts, and the videos of the beaches.