Making Public Participation Work: Encouraging Responsive Citizen Participation

Abstract

Community Based Tourism is a tourism industry that promote community involvement (society) and environment. It aims to improve impact economic and social for the community in the context of the sustainability development goals. This article is about community involvement in the development framework at the local rural level. Characteristics of people who are less educated but loyal to the social order is the research setting. The public participation mechanism initiated by the local government has encouraged the responsive participation of local communities. The interaction of government actors and community agents in the implementation of tourism village policies describes an adaptive policy mechanism in the context of the environment and local communities.

Keywords

• community based tourism
• sustainability development goals
• tourism industry