Spatial Pattern of Tourist Destination Island in Riau Islands

Abstract

Riau Islands is an archipelago on the island of Sumatera. The area has tourism potential particularly for island tourism. The Islands in this Batam Islands has different characteristics to be used as a tourism destination area, including natural attractions or nautical tourism, religious tourism, shopping tourism, agro tourism, MICE tourism, culinary tourism, sports tourism, and historical tourism. This study focused on the spatial aspect of the pattern islands with various components of tourism destinations in the Riau Islands. As the location is the observation area as an area of tourism destination Batam islands and the surrounding islands. This study aims to determine how the spatial patterns that will be developed in the Riau Islands to support the islands tourism destination so that it can grow even more. This study is a qualitative research approach to direct observation. The theory of the background of this research is the theory of spatial patterns of tourism destinations, archipelascape, and the theory of networks across the island. The conclusion suggests that the spatial models in Batam Islands strongly support the development of the region as a tourism destination area islands.