ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Sustain. Tour.
Sec. Social Impact of Tourism
Local Arts Community Empowerment Model Based on Sustainable Tourism Governance
Provisionally accepted
- Universitas Brawijaya, Malang, Indonesia
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Cultural tourism with community involvement can serve as a sustainable driver of local economic improvement. However, despite the growing recognition of its potential, there remains a limited empirical understanding of how sustainable tourism governance can be operationalized to strengthen the empowerment of traditional arts communities, which face unique challenges in balancing cultural preservation and economic viability. This research aims to explore the empowerment of local Reog arts communities and develop a governance-based empowerment model for sustainable cultural tourism. A qualitative approach using an interactive analytical model was employed. Primary data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 20 informants, complemented by participatory observation and document analysis. The results indicate that the empowerment of local arts communities remains suboptimal due to limited access to information, uneven participation, and low organizational capacity. Sustainable tourism governance characterized by clear policies, multi-stakeholder collaboration, integrity, and communication platforms is necessary to enhance information flow, community participation, and institutional capacity. The study proposes an empowerment model demonstrating that robust governance mechanisms can strengthen local arts communities as cultural tourism actors.
Keywords: Community empowerment, Cultural tourism, governance, Local Arts, sustainable tourism
Received: 08 Sep 2025; Accepted: 05 Dec 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Kinasih, Zauhar, Domai and Said. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Wulan Kinasih
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