Jurnal Ilmu Komunikasi
Vol 20, No 1 (2022)

Sociocultural Information Gap in the Dive Tourism Industry: Evidence from Komodo National Park

Agustinus Rusdianto Berto (Communication Sciences, Faculty of Communication, Universitas Multimedia Nusantara Jl. Boulevard, Gading Serpong, Tangerang, Banten, 15111, Indonesia)
Endah Murwani (Communication Sciences, Faculty of Communication, Universitas Multimedia Nusantara Jl. Boulevard, Gading Serpong, Tangerang, Banten, 15111, Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
11 May 2022

Abstract

Through the perspective of partnership for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs 17th), this study aims to identify and describe the information gaps among stakeholders of the dive tourism industry of Komodo National Park as one of the super-priority tourism destinations in Indonesia. Researchers studied documents, performed field observation, and conducted in-depth interviews with 20 stakeholders. Qualitative content analysis revealed several notable findings. First, the information gaps among stakeholders are generally linked to knowledge disparity about tourism-technical and local sociocultural issues. Sociocultural information, particularly on environment preservation issues, shows the tendency to predominate everyday discourse rather than tourism technical information. Second, the foreigner community appears to be better than local stakeholders at mastering the sociocultural information discourse, particularly in terms of collaboration on environment preservation information. Further studies are needed to examine the interaction among actors predominating the sociocultural information management and their strategies to collaborate in maximizing the role of Destination Management Organization-Destination Governance (DMO-DG).

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Journal Info

Abbrev

komunikasi

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Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Jurnal Ilmu Komunikasi focuses on writings that contain current research and thinking in the fields of: Communication Science, including media and journalism studies, audio and audiovisual broadcasting studies, public relations studies and advertising studies; Design of Visual Communication; ...