Cultural and Heritage Trail Tourism: Strengthening Local Economy and Culture Resource Conservation at Kotagede Yogyakarta
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Journal Sampurasun : Interdisciplinary Studies for Cultural Heritage Vol. 05, Number 02, December 2019 CULTURAL AND HERITAGE TRAIL TOURISM: STRENGTHENING LOCAL ECONOMY AND CULTURE RESOURCE CONSERVATION AT KOTAGEDE YOGYAKARTA Wenang Anurogo ¹, Muhammad Zainuddin Lubis ², Condra Antoni3, Novita Ayu Dewanti4 ¹,2,3 Geomatics Engineering, Politeknik Negeri Batam Batam 29461, Indonesia, 4Master Student Mathematics Education DepartementUniversitas Negeri Yogyakarta Yogyakarta 55281, Indonesia [email protected], zainuddinlubis @polibatam.ac.id, [email protected], [email protected] Abstract Kotagede Heritage Area is one of the main tourist destination in Yogyakarta. Heritage trail tour activities that exist in the area of Kotagede is able to provide historical knowledge. The activity depends on the interest of the people and tourists in choosing tour packages. The research on heritage trail tourist object in Kotagede is using qualitative research method and combined with high-resolution remote sensing image data. The tourism of this Kotagede can be categorized into the resilience of community-based tourism areas in strengthening the local economy as well as and the preservation of cultural resources viewed from various aspects. The first aspect is the wage policy aspect given to the members of the cruise board, from which the youth who become tour guides can get income that can reduce the unemployment rate of the youth. The second aspect is in terms of trade, with the activity of tourism, the surrounding community who use to peddle traditional food to the modern will be a positive impact with the more their wares, especially if it is incorporated into one of the destinations of the tourist route. This aspect of trade can improve the welfare of the surrounding community by making it as a livelihood. The last aspect is the aspect of maintenance and rehabilitation of the infrastructure of the development area by private and government-related stakeholders. Keywords: Tourism, Cultural Heritage, Trail Tourism, Kotagede, Remote Sensing, GIS. 1. Introduction through various ruined sites, as well as the toponym of the names of the regions. Iterm “Jagalan Tlisih Telusur Kampung This tour activity is able to give historical Pusaka” and Prenggan village with the term knowledge, fun, and healthy because it can "Jelajah Pusaka Kampung Wisata Prenggan". only be passed by cycling or walking. The Each has its own packaging and appeal to activity depends on the interest of the people attract the public and tourists (Anurogo et al, and tourists in choosing a tour. Managers 2017; Mendola and Volo, 2017; Rahmi, dominated by activists’ youth organization is 2017). expected to promote and increase the interest “Jagalan Tlisih Telusur Kampung of tourists, thus making the trend of heritage Pusaka” is a program of collaboration trail as the main destination. The availability between Yogyakarta community architects of adequate facilities and infrastructure such (ArkomJogja), Jagalan village youth, and the as roads, toilets, lighting, road signboards to AirAsia Foundation. The program began Kotagede is sufficient. Route sharing and time inaugurated in March 2015. Attractions are estimation are the basis of managers' offered by packing tourist areas by walking consideration in determining roaming along the village aisles that are interconnected packages with various modifications. Package in Kotagede by enjoying the journey of the of tourist trail as a route to introduce the old city. “Jelajah Pusaka Kampung Wisata potential that exists in Kotagede region. Prenggan” has already been established and Tourists can choose the packages offered in actively holds promotions and tour activities. accordance with the desired interest, therefore Marking the area can still be seen physically this study is intended to contribute in the 141 Journal Sampurasun : Interdisciplinary Studies for Cultural Heritage Vol. 05, Number 02, December 2019 analysis of destinations in one of the documentation study, and triangulation. important destinations in the city of Observation is a technique of collecting data Yogyakarta is the art and culture area and by looking at the state of reality of the heritage Kotagede and provide a spatial environment under study. In addition to description of one of the cultural attractions in observation, this study also uses data with order to provide informative knowledge to the interviews, where interviews are used, namely public to be interested and continue to structured and semi-structured interviews. preserve the tour. this research aims to While the documentation study by collecting determine the role of cultural heritage tourism photographs, documents from related Kotagede region to the local community's informants was examined as reinforcement economy around the tourist area and is evidence rather than the documentation data expected to raise awareness of stakeholders to of this study. Triangulation data collection develop and preserve the cultural heritage conducted by the researcher while testing the tourism (Glaser and Strauss, 2017; Thimoty, credibility of the data, namely by checking the 2011) credibility of the data with data collection The principle of good tourism techniques and various data sources. management is explained as follows. Interviews in this study are semi-structured so 1. Development and development of that the flow of questions in the interview is tourism must be based on local more directed, clear and easy to understand by wisdom and a special local sense that the informants encountered. Then this reflects the uniqueness of cultural research conducted non-participatory heritage and the uniqueness of the observations. The observations were carried environment. out by the researchers by observing the 2. Preservation (maintenance), holding of the tourist village competition protection, and improvement of the followed by the tourist villages. The quality of resources that are the basis researcher also looked at the conditions of of the development of tourism areas. supporting village tourism facilities, the 3. Development of additional tourist activity of tourist villages, and the utilization attractions that are rooted in the of various resources in the management of peculiarities of local culture. tourist villages in the Kotagede area. This 4. Services to tourists based on the research uses source triangulation techniques. unique culture and local environment. The researcher tried to compare the data of 5. Giving support and legitimacy to the the observations with interviews, compare the development and development of situation and perspective of someone with tourism if it is proven to provide various opinions and views of others, and positive benefits but instead controls compare the results of interviews with the and/or stops the tourism activities if it contents of the documentation. The method exceeds the carrying capacity of the for the study of heritage trail object in natural environment or social Kotagede using a qualitative method. acceptability even though on the other Qualitative research is a study that yields hand it can increase people's income. insufficient findings obtained only by using In addition, there are ten principles of regional statistical procedures or by other means of tourism governance, namely the principle of quantification or measurement, but by related community participation, stakeholder showing in the study of community life, involvement, local ownership partnerships, history, behavior, organizational continued use of resources, community functionalization, social movements, or aspirations, environmental carrying capacity, kinship relations (Kempiak et al, 2017) program monitoring and evaluation, The success of a program, in this case, the environmental accountability, related cultural heritage development program, community training, and promotion and depends on the active or inactive participation advocating for local cultural values (Vanhove, of the community to succeed in the program. 2017). So that in this position the active role of the community is very important for the 2. Method smoothness and success of the program and Research method is a step that must be the achievement of sustainable goals. Heritage done to complete the research objectives. trail programs are proclaimed in the There are several data collection techniques framework of government and community used, namely observation, interview, efforts to increase regional income. The shift 142 Journal Sampurasun : Interdisciplinary Studies for Cultural Heritage Vol. 05, Number 02, December 2019 in the development paradigm from growth to way that shapes the thoughts and views of sustainable development is characterized by humans. dynamics and current development trends, Where a qualitative study is explored and while awareness among the community deepened from a social phenomenon or a continues to increase and helps determine social environment consisting of the direction and control over development. perpetrator, event, place and time. Qualitative The government wants to make changes research is done because researchers want to from a certain condition to another more explore unquantifiable phenomena descriptive valuable situation. In order for the change like the process of a work step, the formula of process to reach the goals of changing a recipe, the notions of a diverse concept, the conditions better and can be used as a characteristics of a good and service, images, controller for the future, in carrying