Tourists Perception Towards Tourist Satisfaction in Pangandaran Beach, West Java, Indonesia

Abstract

Pangandaran Regency has quite diverse tourist destinations ranging from beach tourism, cave tourism, cultural tourism and others. Pangandaran Beach is one of the tourist destinations in the Regency of Pangandaran, West Java, from sources of the Tourism Office and Pangandaran Culture it can be seen that the level of tourist visits to Pangandaran Beach from 2016 to 2017 has decreased for international tourists while experiencing an increase for domestic tourists. Therefore, it is necessary to conduct research aimed to determine the perceptions of tourists to improve the quality of management services in Pangandaran Beach tourist destination. The method used is the servqual method and PGCV (Potential Gain Customer Value). The servqual method aims to see the service quality attributes that need to be improved and the PGCV method aims to complete the analysis results of servqual by determining the priority of improvements that must be done based on the PGCV index. Based on the results of the analysis, there are 5 service quality attributes that need to be improved, such as attractions displayed, providing updated information about upcoming events, integrated information service center on children and lost items, sound notification of danger in the coastal area and the availability of integrated service posts around the beach.