ABSTRACT

Tourism development mostly is based on comparative advantages, and the development of tourism destination needs competitive advantages, aiming to capture larger market. This study delves on the concept of competitive tourism based on cultural spatiality and ICT by analyzing the cultural spatiality itself, creative city, ICT in tourism to generate competitive tourism. Several objectives are elaborated with content analysis to construct the concept of competitive tourism based on cultural spatiality and ICT, including analyzing cultural spatiality phenomena, ICT, creative city, and tourism; and conceptualizing the competitive tourism based on ICT, cultural spatiality, and creative city.