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Dari Menanam Buah Menjadi Menanam Rumah : Transformasisosial Ekonomi Masyarakat Kota Batu, Edlin Dahniar Al-Fath Dec 2016

Dari Menanam Buah Menjadi Menanam Rumah : Transformasisosial Ekonomi Masyarakat Kota Batu, Edlin Dahniar Al-Fath

Journal of Indonesian Tourism and Policy Studies

This research aims to describe the transformation of the village of Oro-oro Ombo from agriculture into modern tourism area. Oro-oro Ombo is one of the villages in Batu City which is undergoing rapid growth in tourism due to its accessibility to the various artificial parks. This study wants to understand the Oro-oro Ombo village after 2008, the year when the Batu Night Spectacular Began to be built on the communal land of Oro-oro Ombo. Previously, Oro-oro Ombo is an area of agriculture with the production of rice, corn, and fruits. At that time, Oro-oro Ombo is a quiet area with …


Book Review: Desire And Disaster In New Orleans: Tourism, Race And Historical Memory By Lynnell L. Thomas, Casey Schreiber Sep 2016

Book Review: Desire And Disaster In New Orleans: Tourism, Race And Historical Memory By Lynnell L. Thomas, Casey Schreiber

Trotter Review

Desire and Disaster in New Orleans: Tourism, Race and Historical Memory, by Lynnell L. Thomas, challenges the racial messages embedded within dominant tourism narratives in New Orleans. From tour guides, to websites, to travel brochures, Thomas extracts and analyzes a variety of messages to document how competing representations of race—desire and disaster—are two frames through which New Orleans tourism narratives represent black culture. Thomas leads readers to question the extent to which alternative tourism narratives can be constructed to more justly address constructions of blackness.


Upaya Peningkatan Wisata Di Jakarta Melalui Museum: Strategipengembangan Museum Nasional Indonesia, Unira Daranca Jun 2016

Upaya Peningkatan Wisata Di Jakarta Melalui Museum: Strategipengembangan Museum Nasional Indonesia, Unira Daranca

Journal of Indonesian Tourism and Policy Studies

Museum as a center of cultural information could be an interesting place to visit. In fact, the museum is often looked as frightening space or even dull for society. The layouting of museum itself and less attraction perceived to be one of the reasons why people seldom visited museums. To make the museum into a pleasant place and visited by many tourists, it would require some strategies. The strategy itself certainly can be used as a tourist attraction to come to visit the museum. Various strategies undertaken by the museum, often manifested by convening various interesting activities program. These programs …


Strategic Management For Rural Tourism Development Inwanayasa, Puwakarta, West Java, Indonesia, Jajang Gunawijaya, Poeti Nazura Gulfira Akbar, Sofyan Ansori Jun 2016

Strategic Management For Rural Tourism Development Inwanayasa, Puwakarta, West Java, Indonesia, Jajang Gunawijaya, Poeti Nazura Gulfira Akbar, Sofyan Ansori

Journal of Indonesian Tourism and Policy Studies

This paper reveals a strategic management case of rural tourism development based on tourism plan in Wanayasa, Purwakarta, Jawa Barat. Research was conducted in August 2015 with qualitative approaches i.e. interview and focus group discussion. In addition, some of data also produced from secondary sources such as government regulation and official website. Findings show that the only strength Wanayasa possessed is their ability in capturing projections of external factors, including identification of potential investors for their tourism. Apart from that quality, it is obvious that their rural tourism development is lack of clear vision & mission, indefinite internal analysis, and …


Problematika Pengembangan Pariwisata Daerahdi Murung Raya, Kalimantan Tengah, Merrisa Octora Jun 2016

Problematika Pengembangan Pariwisata Daerahdi Murung Raya, Kalimantan Tengah, Merrisa Octora

Journal of Indonesian Tourism and Policy Studies

Indonesia is well known for its diversity which scattered from east to west. The diversity itself can be considered as the intangible aspects which relates directly with the aspect of tourism. Tourism provides profitable sectors in many countries because tourism has three major functions. First, to support economic aspect by developed local society. Second, to maintain culture and heritage. Third, to preserve the environment, those three aspects will support the strength of the nation. The purpose of this study is to analyze the reason why the tourism aspect cannot be established by following Indonesian tourism strategic planning. This research is …


Performing A Thematic Analysis: An Exploratory Study About Managers’ Perceptions On Gender Equality, Carlos Costa, Zélia Breda, Isabel Pinho, Fiona Bakas, Marília Durão Apr 2016

Performing A Thematic Analysis: An Exploratory Study About Managers’ Perceptions On Gender Equality, Carlos Costa, Zélia Breda, Isabel Pinho, Fiona Bakas, Marília Durão

The Qualitative Report

The purpose of this paper is to present results from an exploratory study that aims to investigate why gender role alterations in leadership positions is slow. The tourism managers’ perceptions of gender equality, within the workplace, were obtained resorting to focus groups. We chose thematic analysis to identify themes and patterns. This thematic analysis enables a methodological systematization of data. Data were coded using webQDA, a computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software that speeds up the team process of analysis. The systematization of information helped overcome the difficulties to synthesize the various interpretations; thus it was possible to generate more ideas …


Reawakening In Bundelkhand: Cultural Identity In Orchha And The Effects Of Tourism On Its Creation, Preservation, And Loss, Brenton David Kalinowski Apr 2016

Reawakening In Bundelkhand: Cultural Identity In Orchha And The Effects Of Tourism On Its Creation, Preservation, And Loss, Brenton David Kalinowski

Black & Gold

The purpose of this study is to explore the roots of the cultural identity of the Indian town of Orchha today, and with that context in place, to analyze the influence tourism has had in Orchha in the past twenty years. In particular, how tourism has created new cultural identity, how it has influenced a movement towards the preservation of cultural identity, but also how it has threatened loss of cultural identity. The research was conducted using a combined historical and ethnographic approach, using both archival research and ethnographic techniques. Throughout the study, and as this paper shows, the medieval …