BANDUNG URBAN TOURISM POLICY EVALUATION TOWARDS ACHIEVING SUSTAINABLE URBAN TOURISM

• Main Author: Purnomo Aji, Aditya
• Format: Theses
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/47081
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

The tourism sector is one of the most advanced sectors of the national economy. There are lot of tourism potential, from natural tourism, rural tourism, to urban tourism in Indonesia. Bandung City is one of the major cities in Indonesia which has the potential as Urban Tourism. In its management, the City of Bandung has RIPPARDA which organizes tourism potentials such as: attractions, amenities, supporting infrastructure, and its accessibility. However, there are still problems such as the conversion of agricultural and forest land, traffic jams, confusing image of tourism, lack of coordination berween stakeholders, and the lack of community empowerment. These sustainability problems are a new threats for Bandung Urban Tourism. This study aims to evaluate the policy of Bandung Tourism in an effort to achieve sustainable Urban Bandung Tourism. It uses stakeholder analysis to identify influential actors, discourse analysis to explore the understanding and motivation of the actors involved, as well as gap analysis in the RIPPARDA document on the achievement of Sustainable Urban Tourism. Dinas Pariwisata dan Kebudayaan Kota Bandung is found as an actor who has a big influence in the formulation and directing of existing Urban Tourism policies. In addition, policy makers need to find an understanding of the form of urban tourism destinations that will be built by balancing the competitiveness and sustainability aspects of urban tourism. RIPPARDA as a tourism development planning document, has a lack in the aspects of monitoring and evaluating its implementation. The existence of paradox within urban tourism study, on its similarity with the city itself, brings us to the fact that there are similarities within the planning of urban tourism and the urban planning of the city itself. Therefore, the optimalized the development of urban tourism potentials of Bandung city is to makesure the development and planning of the city can balance the competitiveness and its sustainability