Inclusive Economic Development Strategy Based on Tourism Industry

The objective of this study is to develop a tourism-based inclusive economic pilot area that can generate a competitive and sustainable destination so that they become the points of growth spreading the economic growth of the surrounding areas. It also creates a tourism business development strategy involving the community. In relations to the local community and their low income, the management and development will be more directed under the characteristics and superiority of tourism in the area, which will have an impact on improving the economy of the community. The inclusive economic development is an economic development that can contribute gradually to the majority of the people of Indonesia, especially to alleviating community poverty (pro-poor). In this case, the inclusive economic must be built with three main pillars, namely maximizing economic opportunities, providing social safety nets and providing equal access to all economic opportunities (pro-growth). Furthermore, the inclusive economic must take place in the field of economic activity that absorbs large jobs (pro-jobs) and hurts changes in the natural resource environment to a minimum (pro-environment). Inclusive tourism is an approach to empowering the local economy by integrating the resources owned by local communities and their environment with the tourism industry value chain in order to realize the public health, especially the poor, increase the appreciation of the tourism industry for local region potential. Strengthening the competitiveness of the local tourism industry is to consider religious norms and cultural values as well as the diversity of social characteristics of a society, preservation and protection of natural and environmental resources (Faisal, 2015).

Keywords

Strategy ； Economy Inclusive ； Tourism Industry ； Business

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