Mapping of Socio-Economic Profiles for River Water Education Tourism

DOI

10.2991/aebmr.k.200812.022How to use a DOI?

Keywords

socioeconomics mapping, pro-poor tourism supply chain management, water-based tourism, participatory action research

Abstract

This research provides recommendations for action in order to reduce waste pollution, socialize how to maintain cleanliness from an early age especially in taking care with the river, and strengthen the community economy through the development of alternative economies, especially those based on river water education tourism in Saguling Reservoir inlet. The research question is what efforts can be done to improve water quality and reduce waste pollution that occurs in the Citarum River, especially in the Saguling Reservoir inlet? This research was conducted in Jelegong Village which is one of the villages in the Saguling Reservoir Inlet, and has been running for three months in 2017. As the research sample, Jelegong Village will be presented in this study with the livelihood of the population in the industrial field. The research method was used is Participatory Action Research (PAR), which is a research process that places respondents under study as research partners, both in the process of collecting, compiling, analyzing data, and in the process of drawing conclusion and formulating action of recommendations. This study involved 150 respondents from 50 families in Jelegong. The results from this study, namely, social-economic profile of the Jelegong community; which is used to recommend the community to reduce the waste of pollutions in the Saguling Reservoir inlet, specifically in Jelegong region. The formulation of recommendations is built on the concept of pro-poor tourism on the basis of community development and education on the importance of protecting the river and water. The results of this study offered three strategic arrangements, as follows, first, recommendations on strengthening economic behaviour and controlling pollutant behaviour; second, recommendations for piloting community-based economic development in Jelegong Village; third, recommendations on the establishment of water-based tourism in order to improve the quality of river water; and in addition, recommendation on conducting further surveys to deepen this research.

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© 2020, 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  - Sherlywati Sherlywati
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/08/13
TI  - Mapping of Socio-Economic Profiles for River Water Education Tourism
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd Asia Pacific Management Research Conference (APMRC 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 123
EP  - 127
SN  - 2352-5428
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