Inhabitant’s Sense of Place in the Context of Tourism Kampung

Abstract

Kampung improvement program in Surabaya is considered successful in enhancing the quality of housing and settlement based on sustainable development. Recently, the kampungs development is directed toward tourism thematic (Thematic Tourism Kampung Programme) that adopts cultural conservation value. The goals are not only to improve the socioeconomic prosperity of Kampung's people, but also to conserve the kampung's culture and tradition. As a consequence, the function and meaning of kampung may change from urban kampung to tourism kampung. The kampung settlement becomes more accessible to the public visitors and affect the kampung's sense of place to its inhabitants. This paper aims to enrich the model of sense of place in the context of tourism kampung development in Surabaya. This study is developed through literature review of relevant studies and in-depth interview with some respondents. The different theories of sense of place are reviewed to show the need of a shared definition of what constitutes a sense of place, its features, and its performance in the specific context (tourism kampung). The main dimensions and elements' sense of place were used as questionnaires' variables in the tourism kampung context. The result of this research explains sense of place model in the context of tourism kampong that consist of form, activity, and meaning which has sub variable namely place attachment and bonding.

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“…Moreover, the walking session time was only from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (weekdays and weekends), and the study did not consider the walking experiences during nighttime due to several considerations (e.g., time availability of the participants, dead town at night, less visibility, and safety). Second, this study only examined two aspects of the sense of place [34]: form and activity aspects. Third, recorded video data in this study was utilized to observe the participants' interactions with the place, which are not captured by the photographs.…”

“…However, adding more diagnostic-type tools (questionnaires or evaluation sheets) can extend the time needed for the field survey of each participant. Second, it is crucial to try to include the measurement to the meaning aspects of a sense of place (place attachment and bonding) by considering their length of stay [34,35]. The meaning of place aims to measure the people-place bond through emotional connection of place.…”

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“…Kampung's public spaces can accommodate social interactions that have a direct influence on increasing people's sense of place (see table 1). From examples of those physical characters, it can be concluded that some aspects of form / physical attributes that affect the sense of place in kampung, especially tourism kampung are as seen in table 2 (Ramadhani, Faqih, & Hayati, 2018).…”

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