Government Strategic Collaborative Partnership in Tourism Affairs (Study in Malang and Batu City Governments)
Daftar Isi:
- Tourism is defined as part of government affairs related to public services in which concerning cross-regional externalities, therefore, its implementation are based on efficiencies that can be managed collaboratively. However, the rapid-demanding needs of tourism, force each region to partially fulfill their needs with short-term political orientation. This research would like to investigate the identification of the tourism potentials in the form of collaborative partnership between Malang and Batu governments and finding out the model of strategic tourism partnership between Malang and Batu governments. The qualitative methods with descriptive research type are applied on this research. The primary data collection technique was conducted by observation, structured-interview with related government institutions, experts and also related stakeholders. While, the secondary data collection was done by documentation and bibliography techniques. Research subject was determined by using purposive sampling technique. Tourism potentials in Malang and Batu Cities offer their own strategic attraction in East Java that is complementary to each other. This study finds out the tourism potentials are still not yet developed in the official scheme of partnership by the Malang and Batu local governments. This study offers the appropriate model of cooperation for the existing condition of each local government is a specific cooperation on tourism affairs with the form of Cooperative Construction in the form of procurement of physical buildings of the highway as a liaison between tourist destinations in both regions. Thus the persistent problem of traffic congestion resulting from the rapid development of tourism can be addressed together effectively and efficiently. In addition, Joint Services cooperation model can be done by both parties by establishing a one-stop service as a tourist information center of both cities