Abstract:In recent years, socio-economic disparities, especially between rural and urban areas (Gini index up to 0.4) have attracted significant concern from the Government of Indonesia, which developed a community-based rural tourism program as one of the attempts to overcome this problem. Though the program seems quite promising, the implementation was challenging, especially regarding sustainability. Therefore, successful and sustainable practical examples are needed. This paper analyzes the results of a case study from the experiences of community-based tourism implementation in Nglanggeran Tourism Village, Gunungkidul Regency, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, which was considered as successful and sustainable. The main focus of this research is on how the collaboration and involvement of the related inter-organizational stakeholders, initiated by the local community, particularly the youth, has contributed to the program sustainability. Data and information for this study were obtained through in-depth interviews, observation, and documents review. This study found that the local community has a major role in implementing the program, among those various entities of stakeholders. Hence, the paper states this is the key to the success and sustainability of the program.
Tourism Village was chosen as an alternative to the development of tourism in Yogyakarta, this is because the Tourism Village closer to the people so as to involve the community as a component of the main actors. Many developed Tourism Village in Yogyakarta, has brought new challenges being able to package the elements of the tourism system to compete with the characteristics possessed by Tourism Village itself. Tourism Village Nglanggeran a successful ecotourism in conservation efforts, while the Tourism Village is a rural tourist Pentingsari successful in empowering local communities. Departing from this success, comes the following questions: How does the system elements on ecotourism Tourism Village tourism and rural tourism in Nglanggeran Pentingsari Tourism Village? This research aims to identify the characteristics of element tourism system in Nglanggeran and Pentingsari Tourism Village. The analysis technique used is descriptive analysis. To answer the research question to identify elements of the tourism system followed by comparing the characteristics of the elements of the system at both the tourist village. The results obtained from this research are attractions and visitor are best element that describes the characteristics of the both Tourism Village. The main attraction in Nglanggeran ecotourism Village is conservation action that attract the wanderlusters and “pecinta alam”. While in Pentingsari rural tourism village, the rural live of society become the main attraction for educational tourism that attract the student to live in program in Pentingsari rurl tourism village.
Community-based tourism is one of the tourism development models that effectively used as a tool to alleviate poverty through empowerment strategy of the local community. Nevertheless, many people do not have adequate understanding on the characteristics of community-based tourism, which are used as a determinant in the tourism development. This article describes the comparison on characteristics of community-based tourism between Pentingsari and Nglanggeran. These villages were chosen because Pentingsari was a tourism village that able to apply the principles ethical codes of world tourism, shown by an award from the World Committee on Tourism Ethics Code and Nglanggeran was awarded as Best Tourism Village award in Indonesia from ASEAN Community Based Tourism Award 2017.The objectives of this study is to explore the characteristics of community-based tourism applied in the Pentingsari and Nglanggeran, and to identify any indicators that could be used to indicate those characteristics. The research achieves through in-depth interviews, observation, and review of documents. There were 17 persons as informants. Further, the observation was reached by directly observing in the both study cases. In addition, the data obtained through the review of secondary data from the local manager of tourism village. Generally, Pentingsari has characteristics as a community-based rural tourism, while Nglanggeran has characteristics as community-based ecotourism.
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