The Role of Community Empowerment: Norms and Obligation in the Development of Tourism on Bunaken Island

Jufrina Mandulangi, Benny Irwan Towoliu, Treesje Lusje Runtuwene

2019

Abstract

The success of a tourist destination cannot be separated from the role of the local community involved in it. However, sometimes people are only used as spectators, and cannot get benefit from tourism. The success of Bunaken as a National Marine Park, which is known among world diving lovers is inseparable from the role of local communities who support and maintain this tourist destination. The purpose of this study was to analyse the role of the norm and obligation-based community empowerment in the development of tourism on Bunaken Island. The case study methods carried out were observation, interviews and documentation directly in the field. The data source is the selected informants in the snowball model. Empirical findings show that community empowerment has developed as ethical norms that have to be broken down to be part of wisdom, while this is still constrained due to the lack of knowledge of the local community. Since community empowerment is an ongoing process, it is hoped that this will be overcome.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Mandulangi J., Irwan Towoliu B. and Lusje Runtuwene T. (2019). The Role of Community Empowerment: Norms and Obligation in the Development of Tourism on Bunaken Island. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference of Vocational Higher Education - Volume 1: ICVHE, ISBN 978-989-758-530-2, pages 451-457. DOI: 10.5220/0010686800002967

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icvhe19,
author={Jufrina Mandulangi and Benny Irwan Towoliu and Treesje Lusje Runtuwene},
title={The Role of Community Empowerment: Norms and Obligation in the Development of Tourism on Bunaken Island},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference of Vocational Higher Education - Volume 1: ICVHE,},
year={2019},
pages={451-457},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010686800002967},
isbn={978-989-758-530-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference of Vocational Higher Education - Volume 1: ICVHE,
TI - The Role of Community Empowerment: Norms and Obligation in the Development of Tourism on Bunaken Island
SN - 978-989-758-530-2
AU - Mandulangi J.
AU - Irwan Towoliu B.
AU - Lusje Runtuwene T.
PY - 2019
SP - 451
EP - 457
DO - 10.5220/0010686800002967