Participation Of Community in Managing Tourism Object Guruh Gemurai Waterfall in Desa Kasang Kecamatan Kuantan Mudik Kabupaten Kuantan Singingi
Abstract: Since 2008, tourism
department Kuantan Singingi district has let to the local community to manage
the Guruh Gemurai waterfall in Desa Kasang Kecamatan Kuantan Mudik Kabupaten
Kuantan Singingi. As long as, the local community in managing of the Guruh
Gemurai waterfall is not run well. Because of that, the purpose of this
research is to find out participation level among people in the community in
manage Guruh Gemurai waterfall and to find out the relationship between the
condition of economic, social, and culture of the people and participation
level. The method of this reseach is Random Sampling. To know the level of
participation is used Likert Scale and to know the correlation between
participation with social economic and culture is used Chi Square analysis. The
result of this study showed the level of community participation in handling
Guruh Gemurai waterfall is middle level it is 67,5 %. This case couse, local
community just handling in planning and running out. there was a conflict
between the local community with tourism department, the characteristic of
local community is farmer. Economic, social, and culture factor which have
effect to participation level are action in group work tourism, side job and
side income in the waterfall area. Social economic factor which don't have
effect are education level, duration of recidence around location, number of
family member, distance between home and tourism area, knowledge about history
of the waterfall, participation in county management, potency of art and
culture, main job and main income.
Penulis: Susi Marlina, Defri
Yoza, Rudianda Sulaeman
Kode Jurnal: jppertaniandd140724
