ANALISIS SEKTOR POTENSIAL, DAPATKAH PARIWISATA MENJADI LOKOMOTIF BARU EKONOMI NUSA TENGGARA BARAT?

Abstract

POTENTIAL SECTOR ANALYSIS, CAN THE TOURISM BE A NEW LOCOMOTIVE ECONOMY OF WEST NUSA TENGGARA?

The economy of Nusa Tenggara Barat (NTB) reflected in the Gross Regional Domestic Product (GRDP) still depends on metal ore mining and exports. In fact, NTB with a variety of natural beauty and local culture is one of the provinces which in its development is targeted to become the gate of national tourism. With the increasing position of NTB as a national tourist destination, as well as an investment destination in the field of tourism in Indonesia, it is necessary to study to find out the extent to which industry affiliated with the tourism contribute as a new locomotive for the NTB economy outside the mining sector. To obtain leading sectors /categories in a region, several commonly used measurement methods include Location Quotient (LQ), Shift–Share Analysis, and Klassen Typology. Based on the three methods, the results show that of the eight leading categories, three of them are categories that support tourism in NTB, namely the Transportation and Storage, Real Estate and Services. Other important categories are Accomodation & food Service Activities; Construction; and Trade has the potential to be further boosted to further improve the NTB economy. For entrepreneurs, the leading categories that support tourism can be "glimpsed" for investment in the future. Without closing the possibility to open a new business in a potential industry. There is one new economic power that has emerged from the results of analysis, namely the creative economy. It turns out that the industry related to the Creative Economy have been detected as potential categories that deserve to be developed in NTB. Further studies are needed regarding this topic using the Input–Output Table in order to obtain an overview of the interrelationships and inter–sectoral linkages in the economy in NTB as a whole, especially related to tourism.