Wakatobi regency has been chosen as a ten-top priority tourism destination in Indonesia. It provides the opportunity for the local community to obtain benefits through tourism. The aims of this research are 1) to study the expectation of the community related to the management of homestay as accommodation business; 2) to analyse challenges and provide recommendations concerning how to implement community-based tourism on the perspective of community as the organiser of the homestay. Qualitative research conducted in March 2018 by visiting Wakatobi for participant observation and interviews three community members or homestay managers, two tour guides and two people from the tourism industry (accommodation). The research indicates that tourism has encouraged the local community to manage homestay, although there are members of the community require motivation and support to understand the significances of managing homestay and tourism. The management of homestay by the local community links to the implementation of community-based tourism and to optimise the management of homestay; it is necessary to provide sustainable training for the local community as well as to empower people through local tourism organisation. Key attractors such as activities and alternative attractions for the visitors are essential for the management of homestay. Limited numbers of tourists who choose homestay to become the challenge for homestay management, thus, the local community expects that the increasing number of tourists as well as a willingness by tourists to choose homestay as their accommodation.
This research aims at 1) analyzing the tourism potential of Kampung Nelayan (Majene Regency) as tourism village; 2) recommending steps or mechanisms to implement Kampung Nelayan as tourism village. This paper employs a qualitative approach to answer research questions through research visit in July and September 2019. The authors collected research data through in-depth interviews and direct observation. The research reveals that Kampung Nelayan has the potential for tourism village based on community empowerment principles. Kampung Nelayan has potential of marine tourism and cultural tourism. The steps to implement Kampung Nelayan as tourism village including 1) identification of members of community under the categories of internal and external community groups; 2) involving the community members in tourism programs and 3) follow up of community collaboration by the internal and external groups of community.
Air movement is one of the important parameter to establish a good indoor thermal condition. Due to the public environmental concern, people are becoming more interested on turning to the natural sources in achieving the parameters. With a good design approach considering the matters, building is expected to be able to provide good indoor natural ventilation flow inside, hence keeping comfort to its habitable spaces. As being studied before, there are type of houses that contribute to its indoor natural ventilation. However, a proper design solution may still required in determining the design elements to be used. This research defined the significant elements as a proper specified attributes which were observed in case studies. Three categories of tropical houses were studied under the category of vernacular house, contemporary house with vernacular element and contemporary house. Spaces of the houses that indicate good indoor natural ventilation performance were observed on the presence of the specified attributes. Based on the analysis, wind catcher element was found to be the most significant attribute to contribute the maximum to indoor natural ventilation. Wide opening was also found to be significant especially with those with louvers. It is also interesting to find how indoor layout design also significantly giving impact on the performance. Therefore, besides concerning on how to extract the outdoor air flow into building, it is also important to manage the indoor air flow effectively to benefit the occupants.
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