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East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) has the potential attractions include natural attractions and cultural and special interests are adequate and no less interesting attractions to attractions in other areas. Natural diversity consisting of: sea/beaches, lakes, forests, panoramas, waterfalls and more. While the potential of culture consists of various types of local culture, historical heritage, ethnic groups and other traditional events. But the reality of tourism products NTT considered less developed, less competitive and less attracted tourists than other tourist attractions in Indonesia because the lack of promotion, lack of infrastructure and facilities that support to area attractions. For that entrepreneurs need to find weaknesses NTT tourism and sought-solving solutions that competitive advantages of each attraction may soon be upgraded so that it can compete in the highly competitive business arena. From all the above statement raises questions that the strategy of what to do when the manager of the tourism potential market is known and how to increase the number of tourists? To answer the questions above, we are interested in studying it with a reference to the title of “Model as Leading Tourism Development of West Manggarai East Nusa Tenggara Province”. The formulation of the problem in this research is how the model of tourism development as seed West Manggarai East Nusa Tenggara Province “. This study will achieve the following objectives: 1) Identify and analyze the potential for the development of tourism in West Manggarai, 2) Designing a model of tourism development as seed West Manggarai East Nusa Tenggara Province “. The results showed that the West Manggarai Regency is one of the locations that became icons of world tourism destinations where there is a tourist attraction “Varanus komodoensis” is also another tourist attraction that both nature and cultural tourism. Therefore, there should be a special concern of stakeholders including the local, provincial, central, and internationally in the form of programs/activities that support the development/tourism development of West Manggarai. Some roles are absolutely the responsibilities of the government are as follows: 1) Confirmation and consistency of land use development of tourist areas including secured ownership, rental system, and so on. 2) Protection of the natural environment and cultural heritage to maintain the attractiveness of attractions including the rules of utilization of the environmental resources. 3) Provision of infrastructure: roads, ports, airports, bridges, terminals and tourist transport. 4) Facility fiscal, tax, credit and business licenses are not complicated so that people are more motivated to make efforts to travel.

Keywords: model, development, tourism and regional commodity sector

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