The Management of Danau Sipin as a Waterfront City Tourism with Collaborative Governance Approach

Abstract

The growth of the tourism industry has significant increasingly on the international and national levels. The development of the tourism sector has to be done to fix the demand for tourist. The existence of a tourist attraction is to increase community income, tax contribution, and stimulate investment in a country. Increasing the income from tourism needs good governance based on collaborative governance perspective. This research aims to explore the collaborative process and actor mapping in the management of Danau Sipin as waterfront city tourism. The objective of collaborative is to gather the various issue and pattern of cooperation across stakeholders and resources. The collaboration requires the existence of partnerships between government and non-government. This study applies qualitative exploratory methods to understand the problems of tourism management. The data collected from informants are both formal and informal interviews. Then get data by observation and documentation, both primary and secondary sources. The results of this study find the main actors do not play an essential role in the management of the waterfront city as tourist attractions, but without key actors leads to the emergence of conflicts among government institutions. The collaboration process does not always start with a face to face dialogue involving stakeholders. If the community and the private sector that have collaborative initiatives, the process can implement following a mutual trust and strong commitment that emerges voluntarily.