Entrepreneurship and Preservation of the Historical Sites: The Case of the Middle East Region

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nader Asgary ◽  
Neeka Asgary
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
International Travel ◽  
Active Engagement ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Graduate Degrees ◽  
East Region ◽  
Historical Sites ◽  
Middle East Region

In this study, we examine the viability of a Community Based Resource Management (CBRM) model to enhance the tourism industry. CBRM is a bottom-up model, which proposes active engagement in decision-making by stakeholders, especially local communities. The model currently implemented in most developing countries is top-down, wherein central governments are in charge of all decision-making without deliberate engagement of all stakeholders. The focus of this empirical study is on Egypt, Iran, Morocco, and Turkey (EIMT). All four countries have rich historical sites and prospects for advancement of their tourism industries, which could inherently bolster their economies. A survey was developed and disseminated through email. The resulting sample is considered to be ‘expert’ due to respondents reported international travel frequency. Additionally, approximately 80% of respondents have graduate degrees. Our empirical findings support core aspects of the CBRM model, which shows that active engagement of local persons and businesses helps in the protection of historic landmarks as well as fortifying each country’s tourism industry.

scholarly journals Putting Community Based Tourism into Practice

2016 ◽  
pp. 65-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonya R. Graci
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Community Capacity ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Capacity Building ◽  
Essential Information ◽  
Entrepreneurial Spirit ◽  
Negative Impacts

To move towards sustainability, tourism must contribute to the empowerment of local communities. This can be achieved through community participation in decision-making where essential information is gained, with the early stages of empowerment allowing the community to determine their own development (Cole, 2006). Community capacity building ensures the benefit of tourism to the local community by developing skills and entrepreneurial spirit to become part of the tourism industry, which will lead to the reduction of negative impacts. This article focuses on the community of Moose Factory that used a community based approach to create one of the world’s top ecolodges. It was collaboratively developed in an attempt to provide economic, social and cultural livelihoods. Strategies used to develop and involve the community will be discussed.

scholarly journals Tourism Communication in Community Based Tourism in Dieng Community, Central Java, Indonesia

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manik Sunuantari
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
Central Java ◽  
Sustainable Economy ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Aida Model

To encourage a community’s role in the field of tourism, the local government of Central Java, Indonesia promotes a Community Based Tourism (CBT) as a tourism development for the sustainable economy. It involves the community in decision-making processes, especially related to the acquisition of income, employment, and the preservation of the environment, and culture of the indigenous people. This research aimed to determine communication activities in the implementation of CBT. The theory used was tourism communication using Attention, Interest, Desire, Action (AIDA) model. Then, the method was a case study by choosing Dieng as a tourist destination, and the tourism communication activities were undertaken in Dieng’s society, especially in the activities of Dieng Culture Festival (DCF). The results show that the tourism communication activities involving the community, POKDARWIS (Kelompok Sadar Wisata - Tourism Awareness Group), tourism advocates, and local governments should pay attention to the cultural and natural tourism potentials, and empower the local communities.

scholarly journals Fostering Sustainable Tourism Development in Merauke through Community-Based Tourism

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 124-132
Author(s):  
Machya Astuti Dewi ◽  
Iva Rachmawati ◽  
Sri Issundari ◽  
Meilan Sugiarto
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Future Generation ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Regional Government ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Sustainable Tourism Development

Merauke is located in the eastern part of Indonesia that is rich of natural and cultural resources  potential for tourism. Tourism could be a solution to reduce poverty, especially through community-based tourism. Communities reap economic benefits from tourism industry by the increase of local income, hence the social welfare. On the contrary, poor management may lead the emerging Merauke tourism into environmental ecosystem damage. Such a threat to environmental sustainability outweighs any economic benefits because future generation will suffer from the inherited damaged environment. This article will discuss Merauke community participation in fostering the development of sustainable tourism through community-based tourism, that is maintaining sustainability of the environment and ecosystem while considering local communities sociocultural conditions. In doing so, this study uses a descriptive-qualitative approach. Data was collected from document tracking and interviews with Merauke Regional Government, WWF activists, and community leaders. The findings indicated that local communities supported Merauke tourism by developing entrepreneurship in tourism industry, increasing community social control in protecting the environment and enhancing the role of local customary leaders in supporting the tourism development. 

scholarly journals Tourism Advertisement Management and Effective Tools in Tourism Industry

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (10) ◽  
pp. 124-134
Author(s):  
Hassan Salehi ◽  
Morteza Farahbakhsh
Keyword(s):  
Tourism Industry ◽  
International Travel ◽  
Tourist Industry ◽  
Modern Language ◽  
Global Industry ◽  
Promotional Strategies ◽  
Travel Industry ◽  
Historical Sites ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Impact

The definition of tourism “is the travel for recreational, leisure, family or business purposes, usually of a limited duration. Tourism is commonly associated with trans-national travel, but may also refer to travel to another location within the same country”. Tourism as an industry, in today’s modern language is a means of global communication between nations and travelers of all countries, introducing them to the various cultures and societies abroad, as well there history, ancient, historical sites, and languages. Hence, advertising overall has become a tool of necessity in this ever-growing global industry. Given that, tourism is a part of the infrastructure of any country’s economy the growth and development of tourism is of great importance. Advertising plays a vital and is a crucial tool in developing the countries tourism by attractively presenting the nations points-of-interests, historical and cultural. Advertising has a central role in expanding this industry, generating economic growth in this area, as well as creating direct and indirect employment, but most importantly a creative innovating competition in the national and international travel industry. Importantly, to achieve a successful tourist industry, the Travel Agencies and governmental offices of the Ministry’s of Tourism and Business must work hand-in-hand to attain these goals. This article shows the impact of the various media and advertising methods used in tourism, which assisted in identifying the correct tool for expanding the country’s industry of tourism. The results of this study illustrated that the appropriate tools for promotional strategies to attract domestic and foreign traveler’s, found to be the most effective were, handbook, internet advertising, TV, brochures, newspapers.

scholarly journals KONSEP WISATA BERBASIS MASYARAKAT

1970 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-41
Author(s):  
Asep Dadan Suganda
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Basic Principle ◽  
Asset Management ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Economic Empowerment ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Employment Opportunities

Abstrak. Konsep Wisata Berbasis Masyarakat. Di Indonesia, pariwisata merupakan sektor yang memberikan kontribusi besar terhadap perekonomian. Untuk menjadikan sektor ini berhasil, maka diperlukan kepandaian dalam mengelola aset pariwisata yang ada. Salah satu konsep pengelolaan aset pariwisata yang dapat diterapkan bersama masyarakat lokal yang berada didaerah tempat wisata adalah dengan mengenalkan konsep wisata berbasis masyarakat (Community Based Tourism). Prinsip dasar Community Based Tourism adalah menempatkan masyarakat sebagai pelaku utama melalui pemberdayaan masyarakat dalam berbagai kegiatan kepariwisataan, sehingga manfaat kepariwisataan sebesar-besarnya diperuntukkan bagi masyarakat. Tujuan yang ingin diraih adalah pemberdayaan sosial ekonomi komunitas itu sendiri dan meletakkan nilai lebih dalam pariwisata, khususnya kepada para wisatawan. Community Based Tourism akan melibatkan pula masyarakat dalam proses pembuatan keputusan, dan dalam perolehan bagian pendapatan terbesar secara langsung dari kehadiran para wisatawan. Dengan konsep Community Based Tourism akan dapat menciptakan kesempatan kerja, mengurangi kemiskinan dan membawa dampak positif terhadap pelestarian lingkungan dan budaya asli setempat.   Abstract. Community Based Tourism. Tourism in Indonesia is a sector that provides a large income to the country's economy. The experts are required to manage the existing tourism assets. One of the concepts of tourism asset management can be applied with the local communities known as the Community Based Tourism. The basic principle of Community Based Tourism is to make the community as the main actors through empowering various tourism activities, and the benefits of tourism as much as possible for the community. The socio-economic empowerment of the community become the main goal and put more values in tourism, especially to the tourists. Community Based Tourism will involve the community as decision-making process, also in the acquisition of the largest share of income from the tourists directly. With this Community Based Tourism concept will be able to create employment opportunities, reduce poverty and bring a positive impact on the preservation of local native environment and culture.

scholarly journals Partisipasi Masyarakat dalam Pengelolaan Community Based Tourism di Desa Wisata Waturaka, Kabupaten Ende

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 119
Author(s):  
Michael Rudolfus Sawu ◽  
Dian Pramita Sugiarti
Keyword(s):  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Mass Tourism ◽  
Tourism Product ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
The Government ◽  
High Level

Waturaka Tourism Village is a community-based development. Waturaka tourism village has a wealth of natural resource assets and also a very massive culture. Therefore, managing elements of tourism products through the concept of “community based tourism” is ideal in an effort to provide economic benefits for local communities, nature and cultural conservation amid the rampant negative conventional mass tourism. This study aims to look at the components of tourism planning and community participation in it to produce philosophical implementation of community-based tourism.Technique used to collect the data in this research is observation, interview as well as literature study. Descriptive qualitative is used as the data analysis technique in this research. The results of this study indicate that, the management of the tourism product component in Waturaka tourism village was managed by community with a very high level of participation (citizen power) on one hand but not on the other. It is because the motive of local people's enthusiasm to develop community-based tourism in terms of awareness of global reality. Suggestions from this research are tourism awareness groups ( Kelompok sadar wisata) are expected to build networks with external parties in the context of the tourism village marketing, the government and non-government organization is expected to continue to empower local communities so as to produce massive competence in the tourism industry in order to provide maximum satisfaction to tourists. Keywords: CBT, tourism village, participation

scholarly journals Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Tourism Industry: Applying TRIZ and DEMATEL to Construct a Decision-Making Model

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (14) ◽  
pp. 7610
Author(s):  
Dong-Shang Chang ◽  
Wei-De Wu
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Quality Management ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
International Travel ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Decision Making Problem ◽  
Decision Making Model ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Bubble Zone

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the tourism industry is still being sustained, and the response of the tourism industry is an indispensable element that is increasingly recognized. This response has led to the emergence of literature about the impact of COVID-19 on the stakeholders of the tourism industry, thereby contributing to the industry. Nonetheless, the criteria factors and investigated practices for the implementation of decision-making by stakeholders in the tourism industry have not been fully explored. This study adopts Teorija Rezhenija Izobre-tatelskikh Zadach (TRIZ) principles and Decision-Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) methods to construct a gap model of tourism stakeholders (GMTS) which solves the tourism industry decision-making problem under COVID-19. With a research background in Taiwan’s tourism industry stakeholders made up of 15 expert participants, GMTS identified 11 criteria factors, of which the three most important criteria factors provide decision-making directions. The causal relationship between these criteria factors was examined, and a causal diagram was drawn to clarify the most important criteria factors. This research examined the criteria factor implementation perspective. Travel “bubble zones” that ensure both “safety and quality” were concluded upon under government policies in the countries and regions of the world. Furthermore, the tourism industry is responsible for the overall “planning and management” of the travel “bubble zones”. Therefore, the “quality management” criteria factor provides important key decision-making for tourism stakeholders. The research indicates that it is recommended to attach importance to the “quality management” of the international travel “bubble zone” as the priority decision-making criteria factor under the pandemic. Furthermore, conversion policies and tourism regulations are secondary criteria factors for improvement; when these two criteria factors are immediately improved, other criteria factors will be affected simultaneously and the degree of improvement will be weakened. In addition, GMTS was developed for the tourism industry. The article also provides research literature and practice implications for stakeholders in the tourism industry, thereby providing insight for tourism to obtain a clear understanding of how to prepare for the implementation of sustainable development.

scholarly journals Old Wisdom: Indigenous Democracy Principles as Strategies for Social Change within Organizations and Tribal Communities

Genealogy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Rebecca Maldonado Moore ◽  
Thohahoken Michael Doxtater
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Change Model ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Tribal Communities ◽  
The People ◽  
Turbulent Times ◽  
Search Conference ◽  
Political Landscapes

Community engagement founded on Indigenous decision-making practices is essential in addressing issues during turbulent times and ever-changing political landscapes. Indigenous leaders on this continent were instrumental in practicing democracy to address issues impacting local communities with the people, not in isolation. This paper highlights the Search Conference model as a community based participatory change model with Indigenous principles embedded in the process. Specific cases are presented to demonstrate lessons learned.

scholarly journals Partisipasi Masyarakat Lokal dalam Pengembangan Kawasan Pariwisata Candidasa

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
I Made Adikampana ◽  
Luh Putu Kerti Pujani ◽  
Saptono Nugroho
Keyword(s):  
Community Participation ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Community Based

This article examines the local community participation in the Candidasa tourism area, Karangasem, Bali. The objectives are to identify the capital exchange practice of local communities with the tourism industry and then determine the type of local communities’ participation in the development of Candidasa tourism area. The community based tourism approach adopted to understand the phenomenon of local community participation. Based on observations and interviews can be addressed that the communities surrounding the Candidasa relatively have an exhaustive capital. However, the comprehensiveness of such capital is not accompanied by the proper capital exchange strategies by indigenous village institution as a representation of local communities. The local communities only get relief materials from tourism as a result of the capital exchange. Accordance with the practice of capital exchange, it can be said that this type of local community participation is included in the participation for material incentives. This type of community participation is still relatively limited, so it necessary to improve the their involvement into tourism development in Candidasa.

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