THE DYNAMICS ACCESS ON TOURISM GOVERNANCE IN WAKATOBI NATIONAL PARK

Abstract

This research aims to identification actors who compete towards access and how they get, control and maintain the access on tourism governance in Wakatobi National Park. The data collection is conducted through semi-structure interviewed some stakeholders and local communities who involved directly in tourism governance. Moreover, researchers also conducted participant observation in tourism activities. This research showed that there were numerous actors who scrambling to gain, maintain and control access in tourism governance with different mechanisms which have been mediated by authority, capital, markets, technology, social identity and social relations. The Wakatobi National Park Official (BTNW) and Wakatobi Municipality were actors who dominated the access of tourism governance because both of actors have a set of rules which could control the tourism activities. In addition, the private enterprises were actors who obtain and maintain the access in tourism activities because they have network with local government.

Keywords

• tourism
• dynamics
• governance
• national park
• access
• wakatobi