The Role of Economic Infrastructure in Regional Development: Strategy to strengthen tourism economic zones’ supporting system

Authors

  • Panky Tri Febiyansah The Economic Research Center, Indonesian Institute of Sciences
  • Hari Susanto The Economic Research Center, Indonesian Institute of Sciences
  • Mahmud Thoha The Economic Research Center, Indonesian Institute of Sciences
  • Mochammad Nadjib The Economic Research Center, Indonesian Institute of Sciences
  • Firmansyah The Economic Research Center, Indonesian Institute of Sciences
  • Latif Adam The Economic Research Center, Indonesian Institute of Sciences
  • Zamroni Salim The Economic Research Center, Indonesian Institute of Sciences
  • Bintang Dwitya Cahyono The Economic Research Center, Indonesian Institute of Sciences
  • Kanetasya Sabilla The Economic Research Center, Indonesian Institute of Sciences

Keywords:

regional based development, tourism development, tourism infrastructure, policy implementation

Abstract

Regional based development is an important issue to Indonesia as an archipelago country. One of the alternatives to this issue is tourism development, theoretically tourism-dependent economy expectedly has positive impact to the economy. Regional development based on tourism expectedly can be more progressive were it supported by tourism special economic zones. Therefore, the availability and appropriateness of the infrastructure must be examined. The aim of this research is to map tourism infrastructure condition in Indonesia, identify the obstacles of tourism infrastructure development, and analyze supporting infrastructure for inclusive and competitive tourism economic zones. The results show that there are still different definitions for tourism that affects the policy implementation. Moreover, there is still gap between infrastructure availability and needs in the tourism development, especially in tourism economic zones. Otherwise, community in the tourism economic zones surrounding areas has relatively strong social capital to support tourism. This condition should be the other supporting factors besides proper infrastructure and governance.

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Published

2018-06-30

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Vol. 8 No. 1 (2018): Journal of Indonesian Social Sciences and Humanities

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