Rural Tourism as a System Innovation: Social Transformation in a Protected Area

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10.2991/ictgtd-16.2017.56How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Rural tourist destination, protected areas, system innovation, actor-network theory, social tranformation Introduction

Abstract

Rural area in Wonorejo is an agriculture and fisherman based village. The village bordered by Baluran National Park. Conflicting between locals and the national park happened because of exploration of natural resources by locals. Tourism concept taken as a solution for the conflict. This is a social process that contested by stakeholders, such as local community, visitors, national park and local government. This entire stakeholder has their own self-interest, as the elements of their stated social concept. Different values of elements between stakeholders created interest between them. The research used explorative and descriptive methodology to find out actor network theory on the physical and social transformation between stakeholders. The results of this research are tourism is an innovation of social system at local community of Wonorejo, Village, then they transform their selves from exploration of natural resources of Baluran National Park into a preserver of national park.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - A. F. Rachman
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TI  - Rural Tourism as a System Innovation: Social Transformation in a Protected Area
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Tourism, Gastronomy, and Tourist Destination (ICTGTD 2016)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5428
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