THE FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES OF TOURIST INFORMATION CENTER IN CENTRAL JAVA

Abstract

ABSTRACT People in Central Java don’t always know about the function of Tourist Information Center (TIC), they think that TIC is only a public service center for tourists. By this report the writer wants to introduce to the reader the functions and the duties of TIC. TIC is an institution that stands under the section of Tourism Information, Business and Development and is supported by DINBUDPAR technical service unit. TIC is now headed by Mr.Trenggono, S.Ip and has five branches in Indonesia, which are two of them located in Semarang (on Pemuda street no. 146 and at arrival terminal of International Airport Arrival Terminal of Ahmad Yani Semarang), Karimunjawa, Jogjakarta, and Bali There are two methods which the writer used to get relevant data in writing the report. The first method is observation; the writer observed two offices of Tourist Information Center located in Semarang. The second method was interview by interviewing the head office and the staff of Tourist Information Center through asking some questions. TIC performs three out of four functions and main duties of the Organization of Tourism Information Service and Development: making technical operational planning, technical reciting and analyzing, monitoring, implementing other duties or special duty from Head office. The result shows that there’s no function for managing clerical because TIC does not need clericalist and the management of clerical is managed by the center of tourism service and development.