MODEL HUBUNGAN PARIWISATA, KINERJA PEREKONOMIAN DAN KEMISKINAN DI KABUPATEN BADUNG, BALI

Abstract

Tourism and poverty’s phenomenon had already been known since the birth of human civilization. In the 1980s
poverty became a serious concern of practitioners and scholars in various part of the world, including Indonesia.
Poverty is not only understood in understanding as an abstract concept, but also as a reality of economic injustice
and inability to meet basic human needs in some rich countries but also in many developing countries in the
world. The problem of poverty is a fundamental and tourism is one of the many ways to solve this. The objective
of this paper is to study the role of tourism to poverty alleviation including: 1) to analyze the influence of tourism
development toward economic performance; 2) to analyze the effect of economic performance on poverty eradication;
3) to analyze the influence of tourism on poverty alleviation; 4) to formulate a strategy to increase tourism’s role
in poverty alleviation in Badung Regency. This study uses quantitative approach supported by secondary data and
qualitative approach using primary data obtained through in-depth interviews and focus group discussions. Research
was conducted in South Badung Regency in the most developed tourism growth and considered the richest district
among all regencies in Bali Regencies. Various attempts have been made to alleviate poverty, however have not
been able to resolve poverty problems.