Image, impression, and tourist information sources are three important things to be explored in tourism development. Bangka Belitung which in the last few years has been trying to promote the economic sector based on post-tin and plantation tourism dealing with preparedness in management. This study wants to find out how tourists perceive Bangka Belitung, related to the tourist destinations, general views of tourists, and what issues are important to be considered by stakeholders. The study was designed to measure the perceptions of tourists from outside the area in looking at Bangka Belitung on the tourist side based on a quantitative design with a survey model. This research found that visitor arrivals to Bangka Belitung are basically planned as holiday trips from the beginning, not incidental trips. Another thing that was found is that the initial negative impression that emerged in general was environmental damage and the impression of a quiet area. The study also found that information sources for tourists in general are still conventionally based, namely relying on information from friends or family, not yet using a social media or technology base. It was also found the fact that culinary and historical visits have not become an important magnet in the planning of tourists’ trips. In the end, this study found the tendency to visit tourist destinations based on natural beauty, but it is somewhat different from Bangka, tourists in Belitung tend to visit more varied places as an implication of the popular Laskar Pelangi Film. The study concluded that at least the issues that were important as weaknesses were still felt by visitors, including limited transportation, facilities at tourist sites visited that were still minimal, local government support that was considered not optimal, and environmental damage that was considered to be potential for disrupting tourism.
Participation and expectations in the discourse of local ecotourism development are important and strategic aspects that need to be seriously addressed and managed. Both have close relation in the succession of local ecotourism. Bangka Belitung Islands in recent years has continued to make various efforts to optimize various local ecotourism development and development spaces, particularly in the context of preparing post-tin economy. Of course there are so many challenges and issues related to the process of local socio-economic transformation on the island of Bangka, especially the transition from the era of extractivism to tourism. In the midst of stretching the local government that continues to initiate and optimize various destinations and attractions that are quite potential and varied on Bangka Island, it is necessary to design policies that also address from various views, criticisms, aspirations and constructive input, both from the public, the government, local ecotourism actors and stakeholders. Based from this context, this study seeks to explore in depth related to the reality of participation and expectations that have surfaced at the local ecotourism level so far. This study in turn also aims to examine critically related various input, ideas, and narrative-constructive notes in the flow of local ecotourism management. Through a qualitative analysis method with an in-depth and structured interview approach, and strengthened by in-depth observations in the field, this study concludes that the context of participation and coordination among stakeholders has begun to develop, but it still seems to be not optimal because it tends to 'run' individually. This research also concludes that at least an important problem that arises is the unequal context of inter-regional ecotourism development in accordance with the varied potential of each region. In addition, there are weaknesses in terms of infrastructure and ecotourism infrastructure and access to transportation that is still limited or not sufficient enough for high tourist mobility. Furthermore, there are still some weaknesses related to governance and optimizing the potential for local ecotourism, both physical and non-physical aspects, which in fact require serious attention and cooperation through integrative commitments and interwoven strategic alliances, both by local governments, ecotourism actors, mass media, and all tourism stakeholders on Bangka Island.
The history of Chinese ethnic migration to Bangka Island is inseparable from the history of economic expansion based on production from tin mining. Initially, the Chinese were brought as coolie to work in tin mines and then had a major influence on tin management in this area to date. This paper traces the transformation of Chinese influence in tin mining so that this paper will be focused on the organization and production process. This paper is obtained from the results of qualitative research that has an explorative pattern. This study found that the transformation of Chinese influence in tin mining occurred in at least two forms, namely transformation in worker organization, and transformation in the production process. In worker organizations, it was found that Chinese involvement in workers was organized by tiko in a kongsi form, in the form of a partnership. When the reforms began and open mining began to flourish, the ethnic Chinese were transformed into tin owners and traders, no longer as coolie. Transformation also occurs in the form of the use of Sa Kan technology in the production process that is used even more varied in the post-reform period of 1998. This study observed that the technology used since the early has contributed to the damage to the environment, although the rate of damage it is manual compared to newer and more masive technologies since the last of two decades.
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