Implementation of Faulkner’s Tourism Disaster Risk Management Framework in Pentingsari Tourism Village, Sleman, Yogyakarta

Abstract

Tourism is one of the leading sectors in world global economic development which is highly affected by external phenomenon such as natural disaster. It becomes a major obstacle for tourism industries to reduce the damage given by the natural disaster happened in tourism destination, particularly in the Asia-Pacific areas. This area is known for most disaster prone in the world. One of the examples is in Indonesia which has an enormous number of volcanic mountains as a tourism destination. One of the tourism destinations which is endangered from volcanic mountain eruption is Pentingsari Tourism village in Special Region of Yogyakarta. It is located in Merapi Volcano disaster prone area II. This destination is affected by the secondary impact of Merapi volcano eruption and it influences the tourism activities. Moreover, it needs a certain approach to reduce the impact of eruption for the tourism sector. This study analyzes the implementation of risk disaster management in Pentingsari Tourism village applying theoretical basis from Faulkner’s risk disaster management framework (2001). The research uses qualitative methodology by interviewing the tourism stakeholder in Pentingsari Tourism Village and disaster management of Sleman region. This research results a comprehensive analysis of how far Pentingsari Tourism Village implementing Faulkner’s tourism disaster risk management framework.