The Impact of Tourism Industry on Economic Growth in the Salumpat Saindege City (Padangsidimpuan, North Sumatera)

This article focused on analyze the Impact of the Tourism Industry on Economic Growth in the Salumpat Saindege City (Padangsidimpuan, North Sumatera). This article is a descriptive study with a library study approach. Data used time series of 2005 - 2017. The results of research concluded that the value of tcount is 0.443. By using a 95% confidence level α = 0.05 compared with the sig value obtained at 0.667, the sig value is greater than α or 0.667 > 0.05. This shows that tourism is not significantly and positive effect on the economic growth in Salumpat Saindege City and this indicates that the Economic Growth in the Salumpat Saindege City (Padangsidimpuan North Sumatera) is not determined by the Tourism sector in the same direction. Furthermore, the value of R Square in the research is 0.018 indicating that Tourism has an influence of 1.8 percent on the economic growth and the remaining 98.2 percent is influenced by other variables not examined in this study