The Challenge of Maintaining a Tourist Village When It Is Growing

Indonesia has 1,838 tourist villages spread all over, based on data from the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy (Kemenparekraf) and the Association of Indonesian Tourist Villages (Asidewi). Thousands of tourist villages are divided into four categories: pioneering, developing, advanced, and independent. Currently, many tourist villages claim their area as a tourist village. Tourist villages don’t just talk about tourist attractions. There are many challenges to maintain its status as a tourist village. The tourist village covers the area as a whole that can be packaged into a complete tourist…