Support for Heritage Tourism Development: The Case of Ombilin Coal Mining Heritage of Sawahlunto, Indonesia

Jonny Wongso, Desi Ilona, Zaitul, Bahrul Anif

2019

Abstract

This study aims to invetigate the effect of negative economic, social cultural, and environment impact on support for tourism development. Besides, this study also seek whether there is a significant effect of negative economic, social cultural, and environment impact on support for tourism development. Social exchange the ory is applied to undertand these relationships. Seventy seven residents of Sawahlunto are participated in this study. This study apply SEM-PLS (Smart-PLS) to analys the data. measurement and structural model assessment is conducted before concluding whether there is a significant effect of latent independent variables on support for tourism development. The result reveals that out of sixt variables being tested, only two latent independent variables have a positive relationship with support for tourism development: positive social cultural impact and positive environment impact. This study has two implications: theoritical and practical. Theoritically, this study contribute to the social exchagne theory in the sense that resident gains positive impact is likely willing to exchange with positive attitude toward suporting the tourism development in the context of Indonesia’s enviroment. Practically, this study can be used by govenement in how to gain the residents’ support of Sawahlunto by increasing the positive social cultural and environment impact from tourism deevelopment.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Wongso J., Ilona D., Zaitul. and Anif B. (2019). Support for Heritage Tourism Development: The Case of Ombilin Coal Mining Heritage of Sawahlunto, Indonesia.In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Science, Engineering and Technology - Volume 1: ICoSET, ISBN 978-989-758-463-3, pages 229-236. DOI: 10.5220/0009185402290236

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icoset19,
author={Jonny Wongso and Desi Ilona and Zaitul and Bahrul Anif},
title={Support for Heritage Tourism Development: The Case of Ombilin Coal Mining Heritage of Sawahlunto, Indonesia},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Science, Engineering and Technology - Volume 1: ICoSET,},
year={2019},
pages={229-236},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009185402290236},
isbn={978-989-758-463-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Science, Engineering and Technology - Volume 1: ICoSET,
TI - Support for Heritage Tourism Development: The Case of Ombilin Coal Mining Heritage of Sawahlunto, Indonesia
SN - 978-989-758-463-3
AU - Wongso J.
AU - Ilona D.
AU - Zaitul.
AU - Anif B.
PY - 2019
SP - 229
EP - 236
DO - 10.5220/0009185402290236