Abstract
Tourism has an important role to create and expand the employment opportunities, promote development and increase the district own source revenue, enrich local culture, and preserve the environment. Batu City is one of famous tourism destinations in Indonesia which has a high potential in natural and agricultural tourism attraction. The tourism development in Sidomulyo Tourism Village emphasizes on community empowerment. One of the problems that still faced by its people is the capital limitation, inadequate facilities, lack of human resources and technology. Therefore, the implementation of tourism village should be based on community based tourism that emphasizes self-reliance and community empowerment. Community-Based Tourism (CBT) implementation has the purpose to develop tourism industry; promote rural tourism based on local community empowerment; create jobs; reduce poverty; build an independent and resilient society; create an innovative human; and improve cross-sector cooperation in the tourism village development. Implementation of CBT in Sidomulyo couldn’t be separated from the role of the various stakeholders. It is accordance with the principles of governance that the implementation of development which involving all actors namely the state (government), private sector, and society. The process in realizing the independent community through community empowerment program of tourism with the concept of community based tourism may be optimized for their several contributing factors. Some things become a supporting factor due to give a positive contribution to the implementation of community-based tourism. Keywords : Local Development, Tourism, Governance, Batu City, Indonesia.
Highlights
Development in developing countries is often associated with efforts to increase the per capita income
This study aims to gain an overview of the implementation of community-based tourism in Sidomulyo as the government's efforts in strengthening local economy in Sidomulyo Village
Tourism village is a rural area that offers the whole atmosphere that reflects the authenticity of the village both in social and economic life, social culture, customs, daily life, the architecture and structure of the village spatial characteristic, or economic activities are unique, interesting
Summary
Development in developing countries is often associated with efforts to increase the per capita income With rising incomes, it is expected the problems of poverty, unemployment, and inequality of income distribution can be solved. Development is not indicated by the achievement of economic growth achieved by the country, but more than that development has a broad perspective. This is confirmed by the opinion of Kuncoro One of the factors that become the challenge of economic growth in Indonesia is the inequality of income distribution. Development is still centralized and massively implemented only in big cities, resulting in tremendous inequality between urban and rural communities, especially in economic terms
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