Heritage Tourism Development: Concept of Community-based Tourism in Megalithic Site of Gunung Padang

Israul Hasanah, Hera Susanti, Riyanto, Hapsari Setyowardhani

2018

Abstract

Tourism is the largest industry in the world, is an essential community economic vitality, sustainability, greatly contribute to poverty alleviation and economic growth. In recent years, heritage tourism growing much faster than all other forms of tourism, especially in developing countries. Conservation of heritages tourism is important to conserving the natural environment and the local community is the main stakeholder and benefactor from the heritage tourism development. This study uses a qualitative approach, the data were discovered through three instruments: Observation, Interview and documentation. Cianjur Regency is one area in West Java that has a good tourism in Heritage tourism, which is not owned by many regions in Indonesia. Based on the research, found that heritage tourism relevant tourism concept to develop on megalithic site of Gunung Padang. Heritage tourism is a reflection of the culture and the identity of the local community. Furthermore, tour guides of local community participantion in heritage tourism in Gunung Padang site were symbolic. They are important to increase their strategy to improve their participation. The synergy among stakeholders specifically the quality of homestay and store was needed to increase local community participation.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Hasanah I., Susanti H., Riyanto. and Setyowardhani H. (2018). Heritage Tourism Development: Concept of Community-based Tourism in Megalithic Site of Gunung Padang.In Proceedings of the 1st Unimed International Conference on Economics Education and Social Science - Volume 1: UNICEES, ISBN 978-989-758-432-9, pages 460-465. DOI: 10.5220/0009502004600465

in Bibtex Style

@conference{unicees18,
author={Israul Hasanah and Hera Susanti and Riyanto and Hapsari Setyowardhani},
title={Heritage Tourism Development: Concept of Community-based Tourism in Megalithic Site of Gunung Padang},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st Unimed International Conference on Economics Education and Social Science - Volume 1: UNICEES,},
year={2018},
pages={460-465},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009502004600465},
isbn={978-989-758-432-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st Unimed International Conference on Economics Education and Social Science - Volume 1: UNICEES,
TI - Heritage Tourism Development: Concept of Community-based Tourism in Megalithic Site of Gunung Padang
SN - 978-989-758-432-9
AU - Hasanah I.
AU - Susanti H.
AU - Riyanto.
AU - Setyowardhani H.
PY - 2018
SP - 460
EP - 465
DO - 10.5220/0009502004600465