WRITING A SHORT STORY ENTITLED “PALEMBANG BROUGHT ME TO YOU” TO PROMOTE SOME TOURISM DESTINATIONS IN PALEMBANG

This final report is aimed to write a short story entitled “Palembang Brought Me to You” to promote some tourism destinations in Palembang. The purpose of this final report is to find out the steps in writing a short story entitled “Palembang Brought Me to You” to promote some tourism destinations in Palembang. The writer used Research and Development modification developed by Sukmadinata (2005). The method has 3 steps: Preliminary study, model development and final product testing. The short story was written by the writer and supported by experts’ suggestions for a better final version. It was tested by two experts: the expert of linguistic and the story writer. The writer suggests for future researchers to make more stories about tourism destinations in their own cities, because it will help the government to promote tourism so that it can increase the country income. Furthermore, the writer suggests for government to make an effort to encourage the society to write more