Abstract:
The presence of media helps both local destination managers and the government in their efforts to
improve and promote the Indonesian tourism as an attractive and unique destination. This data
article provides a dataset of 12,487 articles from eight well-known online sources from media such
as liputan6.com, republika.com, tempo.co, detik.com, tribunnews.com, suaramerdeka.com,
antaranews.com, and kompas.com. Fifty-four targeted keywords selected as the matching criteria
for data acquisition from online sources was acquired from 2018 – 2020. The dataset comprises of
(i) demographics of online data sources (ii) tourism activity categories (iii) information regarding
supporting infrastructure for tourism. Due to the scarcity of real data for scientific purposes, these
datasets can have an important role of research and education in hospitality management, tourism,
or marketing Indonesia tourism in providing world class tourism to its visitors also to support the
tourism activities not only can invigorate the economic activity but also ensure the sustainability of
the tourism destination.
