THE SUCCESS FACTORS OF RURAL COMMUNITY BASED TOURISM IN INDONESIA

Abstract
The practices showed that tourism has been recognized as a concept which contributes to local
economic development. The research of Community Based Tourism was abundant but fails to
provide detailed touching when it implemented at the rural level at developing countries. The
paper attempt to enrich this discussion by providing key success factors of CBT’s sustainable in
five water objects tourism. A conceptual model from Thailand experience used as a basic
framework and developed based on rural Indonesia context. The descriptive analysis used to
identify the determinant factor of CBT in those areas from online questionnaires. Data collected
from 221 respondents. The study had identified three factors; ownership, participation, and
responsibility as key determinants success factors.
Keywords: Basic infrastructure, Financial Benefit, Local Government, Traditional Culture.