Muhammad Baiquni

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.

KOMPETENSI PENDIDIK BIDANG KEPARIWISATAAN DI PULAU LOMBOK

Abstrak: Kompetensi Pendidik Bidang Kepariwisataan di Pulau Lombok. Saat ini Pulau Lombok telah berkembang pesat sebagai destinasi pariwisata. Terdapat tuntutan pemenuhan kebutuhan yang tinggi terhadap standar kualitas sumberdaya bidang kepariwisataan. Artikel hasil penelitian ini memaparkan mengenai kualifikasi kompetensi pendidik dengan bidang keahlian kepariwisataan di Pulau Lombok. Penelitian dilakukan secara kualitatif, dengan wawancara mendalam dan focus group discussion sebagai teknik pengumpulan data. Subyek penelitian terdiri atas para pendidik pada jenjang SMK, Akademi, dan Universitas yang memiliki program studi bidang keahlian kepariwisataan. Hasil kajian mengungkap bahwa para pendidik membutuhkan kegiatan-kegiatan pelatihan tematik kontekstual bidang kepariwisataan secara berkelanjutan, percepatan sertifikasi, dan kesempatan menempuh jenjang pendidikan formal yang lebih tinggi sebagai upaya untuk meningkatkan kualifikasi kompetensi profesional.

THE DIVERSITY OF ECOTOURISM POTENTIALS IN KELIMUTU NATIONAL PARK OF ENDE REGENCY

Natural tourist destination management plays a crucial role in materializing three important aspects, namely conservation, participation, and education. As a tourist destination, Kelimutu National Park, possessing a big ecosystem potential, tourist and cultural potentials, is expected to provide economy, culture, and conservation impacts on the society surrounding Kelimutu National Park. The problem of this study is how the variety of ecotourism potential in Kelimutu National Park is able to prosper the surrounding society. To answer this question, the definition of ecotourism, national park, national park ecotourism, and ecotourism potential need to be understood. Several methods used in answering the problems of the study are finding out the location of Kelimutu National Park, collecting qualitative data by conducting library research and participatory observation. The results were conceptually described, supported by tables and pictures.

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.