Potensi Wisata Kuliner sebagai Daya Tarik Wisata di Kabupaten Simalungun

This research shows that culinary tourism has the potential as a tourist attraction in Simalungung Regency as one of the districts on the edge of the Lake Toba super priority area. The community as culinary business actors and the local government play a role in culinary potential and what obstacles culinary entrepreneurs face. This study uses a mixed method or mixed method, which is a method that combines quantitative and qualitative approaches so that it gets accountable results. The final results of this study can be interpreted that there is a significant linear relationship between the potential for culinary tourism as a tourist attraction, the results are proven from the reliability test results showing that the Cronbach's alpha value of all variables is> than 0.6. The results of the normality test above show that the significance value is 0.999> 0.05, it can be concluded that the residual value is normally distributed