Community-Based Tourism as an Effort to Increase Women's Participation and Social Inclusion Receiving Tourism Benefits

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10.2991/978-2-494069-73-2_35How to use a DOI?

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Tourism; Community; Women’s participation

Abstract

Today’s tourism is the alternative maintaining the community’s environmental, economic, and cultural heritage. Hence, seeing the enormous opportunity for tourism contribution to sustainable development, efforts are needed to accelerate SDGs in Indonesia through tourism. Community involvement or participation is one of the keys to achieving this goal. In carrying out this research, researchers focused on community involvement, especially women’s. This study aims to analyze women’s participation and social inclusion in tourism benefits and develop strategies to increase women’s participation and social inclusion in tourism benefits. The research location took place in several community-based tourist attractions in Cirebon City. This research design uses quantitative and qualitative approaches. It describes women’s participation in community-based tourism development and optimization by forming development strategies. Based on the Importance Performance analysis results on the performance of women’s involvement, it depicts the increase in participation needs to be raised, with the average performance being at a point of 4.9 and a vital perspective score of 6.4. Based on the conducted FGDs results, the main strategic recommendations are to increase women’s confidence and competence, both those who have already participated and those who have the potential to attend tourism, including benefiting from it.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Meizar Rusli
AU  - Riza Firmansyah
AU  - Selma Fathimah Az-Zahra
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/12/26
TI  - Community-Based Tourism as an Effort to Increase Women's Participation and Social Inclusion Receiving Tourism Benefits
BT  - Proceedings of the International Academic Conference on Tourism (INTACT) "Post Pandemic Tourism: Trends and Future Directions" (INTACT 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 485
EP  - 491
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-494069-73-2_35
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-494069-73-2_35
ID  - Rusli2022
ER  -