WRITING A SHORT STORY ENTITLED “LOVE IN PALEMBANG” TO PROMOTE TOURISM DESTINATIONS IN PALEMBANG

This final report is aimed to write a short story entitled “Love in Palembang” to promote tourism destinations in Palembang. The purpose of this final report is to find out the steps in writing a short story entitled “Love in Palembang” to promote tourism destinations in Palembang. The writer used Research and Development modification method by Sukmadinata (2005). The method has three steps: Preliminary study; Model development; and Product testing and Dissemination. The short story was written by the writer and supported by experts’ suggestions for a better final version. It was tested by three experts: two experts of linguistic and two story authors. 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