Open AccessThe integration of local creativity-based tourism by the LED approach
Author(s) -
Fitri Rahmafitria,
Heru Purboyo
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.179
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/683/1/012117
Subject(s) - tourism , local economic development , creativity , local government , empowerment , context (archaeology) , business , welfare , equity (law) , economic growth , local development , regional science , economic geography , marketing , economics , geography , political science , market economy , archaeology , law
Regional development model with top down approach oftentimes became uneffective in gaining local welfare and equity. Then, Local Economic Development (LED) become the way, with focus on local empowerment in stimulating local industries and economic growth. This paper discuss the idea of LED based on local creative communities as a basis in developing tourism in regional context. The implementation of this approach will run effectively if tourism development is integrated on the regional strategies. The study conducted with comparing secondary data of tourism and regional development achievement in West Nusa Tenggara (NTB). The result shows that the high rate of tourism investment is not significantly correlating with the increasing of local welfare. Instead of that, the number of poor communities and the unoptimistic perceived on jobs availability is increased. The concept of local creativity tourism is expected to encourage local economic development through local resources empowerment.