Community Readiness in the Implementation of Local Tourism Village in Alas Sumur Bondowoso

Abstract

Tourism in Indonesia is starting to change from what was originally mass tourism to thematic tourism which is more of a nature, culture, uniqueness, and local characteristic tourism. This is supported by the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy, in addition to preventing urbanization, tourist villages are also aimed at developing community businesses with local wisdom. However, in fact, the development of this tourism village program is often carried out without being accompanied by empowerment in the surrounding community regarding the readiness of the community to make their area a tourist village and make it a livelihood, resulting in suboptimal village management and not optimal use of facilities. This study aims to determine community acceptance of tourism villages and analyze how tourism is handled in the context of community readiness in managing local tourism villages, namely Alas Sumur Tourism Village, Bondowoso, East Java. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative research by taking data in the form of direct interviews with the community. The findings in this study illustrate that public knowledge in Sapta Pesona Tourism is not implemented due to a lack of understanding, so that the development of tourist villages ultimately has an impact, namely that one community tends not to participate in optimizing the tourist village