Enhancing Students’ Creative Thinking Skill through Tourism Community Engagement

Keywords

community engagement; community based tourism; handycraft tourism

Abstract

Students are ‘engaged’ in the community when they play a significant part in the discussions, considerations, decision-making, and implementation of a program that is designed to be closely related to the concerns of both the students and the community. The study describes the implementation of creative thinking skill as a foundation in designing a community engagement project. The project was conducted in a tourism village in Purwakarta, Indonesia and the objective of our study is to employ the creative thinking skill principles to design a familiarizing program for rejuvenating the tourism promotion system in the area. By implementing the creative thinking elements, the students are assigned to analyze the existing system and proposes alternatives for improving the tourism promotion in the area. Also, a grounded study was implemented to analyze and observe the current issues and the potential of the village. Key informant interviews, focus group discussions and secondary data gathering were also conducted as parts of the study. As the results, social capital and professional linkages play a prominent role in familiarizing a tourism object. The reflective paper also argues that by implementing creative thinking principles, the students are able to address the emerging issues and lead to a better understanding to where they focus in improving the tourism village.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

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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TY  - CONF
AU  - Vidi Sukmayadi
AU  - Reiza Miftah Wirakusuma
PY  - 2019/06
DA  - 2019/06
TI  - Enhancing Students’ Creative Thinking Skill through Tourism Community Engagement
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Seminar on Tourism (ISOT 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 256
EP  - 259
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://www.atlantis-press.com/article/125909393
ID  - Sukmayadi2019/06
ER  -