Abstract
A rural village, similar to other rural areas, has a need to be economically independent in cope with their sustainable economic growth. A unique value accompanied by good hospitality has been the main situation concerns with tourism. This paper discusses the assessment of attitudes and concerns of residents in the-only educational scout-based tourism village in Indonesia. Data for the study was collected by spreading the questionnaire directly to residents. Data collected through a direct survey. Attitudes were assessed by a 5-point strongly disagree and strongly agree scale on several questions implying residents' opinions on educational scout-based tourism and its impacts. The results showed great support for tourism. Residents have positive attitudes regarding tourism as they associate it to be important for their economic growth. The main concerns for residents in welcoming tourism are including their village community progress, better services in health and education, as well as the hope for the available market in their crafts products. However, the results also showed residents were not particularly assured of the user (tourists) money circulation and facilities benefit from the tourism activities occurred in their village, even though they support educational scout-based tourism development. It indicated a lack of self-confidence and trust issues towards the tourism manager. In this paper, a slight correlation between education and residents' attitudes towards tourism also discussed. Keywords : confidence, educational tourism, Lebakharjo, trust.
Highlights
INTRODUCTION* Lebakharjo, Ampelgading Malang is located in the south part of Malang county, East Java province, Indonesia
This paper discusses the assessment of attitudes and concerns of residents in the-only educational scout-based tourism village in Indonesia
The results showed residents were not assured of the user money circulation and facilities benefit from the tourism activities occurred in their village, even though they support educational scout-based tourism development
Summary
AND DISCUSSION A total of 30 questionnaires were completed of, which 100% are residents from Lebakharjo. The residents had positive attitudes and supportive of scout-based tourism development. It demonstrated by interpretation score observation on the Likert scale. The result showed that there were twelve positive questions regarding scout-based tourism results show that residents are supportive of scout-based tourism development as long as they don’t have to pay to fund it. Residents are not assured of user money circulation and facilities benefit from the tourism activities occurred in their village, even though they support scoutbased tourism development. Residents generally didn’t agree with negative questions including that tourism would increase crime rates, endanger the noble values of the village community, interfere with village community activities, and damage their environment, indicating overall support for scout-based tourism. Residents of Lebakharjo village are very supportive of scout-based tourism development. Educational tourism can increase the use of natural resources (wood, fish, etc.) by the community
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