Community Participation in Tourism Village Development and Its Impact on Local Community Economies

Abstract

This research was conducted to determine the form and level of participation of the Cisuru Village community in the development of the Curug Geulis Tourism Village, as well as its impact on the local community's economy. In this study, researchers used a descriptive-qualitative method. With regard to data collection, observation techniques, interviews, and documentation were used. Regarding the determination of informants, a purposive sampling technique was used, in which the criteria for informants were determined by the researcher, while the data analysis method used data reduction, data presentation, and drawing conclusions. The results of this study indicate that the form of participation provided by the Cisuru Village community in the development of the Curug Geulis Tourism Village is of three kinds, namely participation in the form of thought, participation in the form of labor, and participation in the form of thought and energy, while the level of participation of the Cisuru Village community in village development According to Arnstein's theory, tourism is still at the fifth level, namely placation which is categorized as pseudo participation (tokenism), which means that the community has not participated fully. Meanwhile, the participation of the Cisuru Village community in the development of the Curug Geulis Tourism Village, in general, has had an impact on the local community's economy, namely in the form of economic benefits through transactions that occur, the emergence of new business ideas around the tourist village area, increased village infrastructure development, and creation of jobs, both in trade and services.