Three Pillars Partnership in The Tourism Destinations Management in Order to Actualize Good Tourism Governance (Study on a Rafting Tour in Probolinggo Regency)

Lely Indah Mindarti,Muhammad Fahmi Lazuardi

doi:10.21776/ub.jitode.2019.007.03.02

Lely Indah Mindarti, Muhammad Fahmi Lazuardi

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https://doi.org/10.21776/ub.jitode.2019.007.03.02

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Abstract

Three pillars partnership in the tourism destinations management in order to actualize Good Tourism Governance has been studied with a special case on a rafting tour in Probolinggo Regency. In tourism development, the synergy of the three pillars (state, private companies, and society) is necessary. Probolinggo Regency Government in the management of the rafting tour services conducts a partnership with private sectors and society. According to the objectives of the study that have been set, the type of this research is descriptive research with a qualitative approach. In data collection, the data were collected from observations, interviews, and documents of agreement. The method of data analysis used the analysis of Miles and Huberman. The result of this research showed that Probolinggo Regency Government has conducted a partnership with the private companies and the society in managing the tourism destinations. In this case, the three pillars have their responsibility to manage the rafting tour. However, the partnership of those three pillars has to be conducted continuously to actualize Good Tourism Governance. Keywords: Good tourism governance, Partnership, Three pillars, Tourism

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Indonesia as a developing country should emphasize that development is a significant mechanism to increase the society life quality
Indonesia as an archipelago country which has natural wealth makes Indonesia as a tourism destination that has ahuge contribution for increasing economy aspect. It can be shown from the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy datainformed that the tourism sector contributes foreign exchange of US$ 10.69 billion, equivalent to Rp.136 trillion [1]
The three pillars partnership in managing the rafting tourism service in Probolinggo Regency has worked well. It can be proven by the roles and the responsibilities of each three pillars; they are government, private sectors, and society

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Indonesia as a developing country should emphasize that development is a significant mechanism to increase the society life quality. One of the important development sectors to be expanded is Tourism. Indonesia as an archipelago country which has natural wealth makes Indonesia as a tourism destination that has ahuge contribution for increasing economy aspect. It can be shown from the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy datainformed that the tourism sector contributes foreign exchange of US$ 10.69 billion, equivalent to Rp.136 trillion [1]. Indonesia is as a country which has natural wealth and becomes the area for tourism development. Probolinggo Regency is one of the regencies in East Java has tourism wealth. One of the famous tourism in Probolinggo is rafting. The rafting tourism is located at Pekalen River that is originated from springs of Mount Argopuro [2]

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