Open AccessGambaran Keberdayaan Perempuan di Desa Wisata Pentingsari berdasarkan Resident Empowerment through Tourism Scale (RETS)
Author(s) -
Aristya Tri Rahayu
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
gadjah mada journal of tourism studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2621-9948
pISSN - 2621-9522
DOI - 10.22146/gamajts.v1i1.36313
Subject(s) - empowerment , tourism , scale (ratio) , psychology , politics , socioeconomics , gender studies , social psychology , political science , sociology , geography , economic growth , economics , cartography , law
The main focus of this research is to measure whether female residents in Desa Wisata Pentingsari perceive themselves as being empowered by tourism. The measurement is carried out using the concept of Resident Empowerment through Tourism Scale (RETS), formulated by Boley and McGehee (2014). This study will show the mean score on the dimensions of psychological empowerment, social empowerment, and political empowerment. Furthermore, the mean score will be interpreted with a scale of assessment proposed by Umar (1998). A questionnaire was distributed to 100 women in Pentingsari Tourism Village who are at productive age between 15 - 64 years old. The result shows that the women in Pentingsari Tourism Village perceived themselves to be more psychologically empowered than socially or politically. On the psychological empowerment, the mean score shows a very high score of 4.26. Meanwhile, on the dimension of social empowerment, the mean score shows a high category of 4.19 and on the dimension of political empowerment 3.69, still in the category high score.