The Attractiveness of Krebet Tourism Village: Applying Components of Tourism Analysis

Dyah Widyastuti ,  Theresia Rasika Dharmesti
Center for Tourism Studies, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
dwidiyastuti@ugm.ac.id

Abstract

Krebet Tourism Village is one of the tourism villages that categorized as tourism heritage. Located in Yogyakarta Special Region, a province in Indonesia famous by its culture, Krebet has a name for the best Batik Wooden Craft maker. For almost 30 years, Batik Wooden Craft has been bringing economic development into Krebet Village. Accordingly, people visit Krebet mainly for shopping Batik Wooden Craft and learning the making process of it. This study aims to observe Krebet tourism components that consist of attractions, accessibilities, amenities, and ancillaries; and identify Krebet tourism development efforts in order to measure the readiness of tourism destination. Conducting tourism components analysis with descriptive analysis in the qualitative approach, the results have identified Krebet Tourism village has another tourism potential: natural tourist attraction, heritage, local event, and local performance. The other tourism potentials in Krebet Tourism Village have indicated need some developments primarily in communication and facility. Besides, Krebet tourism development effort depicted the effort that has not optimized. This tourism village needs maintenance, improvement, and continuity in order to catch more visitors to visit Krebet Tourism Village. With collaboration between Krebet residents, government, and some CSR programs, economic development will be sustained by creating integrated tourism products in natural and cultural experiences through tourism village. 

Keywords

components of tourism, tourism attractiveness, tourism village
Volume 04, 07 Jul 2020
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