Development of Community-Based Tourism Monbang Village – Alor, Indonesia

Abstract

Monbang Village is located in Alor Regency which has a unique traditional clothing culture and is made by tree bark and the local community usually calls the Ka Tree. In addition, the village also has traditional dances such as lego-lego and cakalele and they have other activities which is they make fires from bamboo. Through tourism cases studes, this paper critically analyzes how well community-based tourism is generally accepted with reality in the field. It focuses on how local community handle their roles as ambassador to maintain their unique daily lives. Community members are often the only “locals” who are visited by many tourists. This study tries to make the project development community method by the community and the need for an effective exit strategy with SWOT analysis.