Chafid Fandeli

Impact of Tourism Destination Based on The Stakeholder’s Perception: A Cases Study in Jakarta Old Town, Indonesiai

Stakeholders has significant role in tourism destination development. The aims of the research is to determine the stakeholders perceptions related to the impact of tourism development in Jakarta Old Town. Field survey was conducted through questionnaire distribution to local community, businessmen and governmental officers in Jakarta Old Town area as one of the main tourism destination in Jakarta, Indonesia. Result of the survey shows that stakeholders argues that tourism in Jakarta Old Town contributes significant impact to understanding of other culture (mean = 4,33), improvement of facilities (mean = 4,29), increase of economic benefits among small enterprises (m=4,27), increasing pride(mean = 4,26), creating Jobs (m=4,23) and renovation of historical old building (mean = 4,19). Therefore, tourism development in Jakarta Old City area contributes positive impact to the local and regional development. There are however, improvement in some area of services and management. It is especially important to increase the sustainability of tourism in Jakarta Old Town area.

Symbolic participation in community-based tourism in Kelimutu National Park, Ende, East Nusa Tenggara

Community participation in tourism development has been received a lot of attention. A research with qualitative and quantitative combination has performed to describe the community participation in ecotourism development in Kelimutu National Park, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. This research involves 362 respondent and 36 informants to describe the community participation in ecotourism program. This research shows that community participation was implemented in symbolic participation form. Community involvement practically only used as a conditions to get program approval. As a result, the majority of local community (48%) fell less involved in ecotourism development, especially in natural resources usage. Respondents has less concern to support attraction, accessibility and amenity preservation (49.2%) of tourism. It seems to be related to the respondent’s conditions, in which respondent state tourism in Kelimutu not contribute to the society prosperity. Since there are significant impacts of symbolic community participation, there are important to perform more strategy and approach to increase the participation level of the community in ecotourism program. The synergy among stakeholder to increase the community-based ecotourism with active community participation was needed.