Public Private Partnership in Tourism Development at Timor Tengah Selatan Regency

International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation (IJRSI) | Volume IX, Issue V, May 2022 | ISSN 2321–2705

Public Private Partnership in Tourism Development at Timor Tengah Selatan Regency

Frans Gana, Elly Lay, Fred Dethan, Antonius Talupopo
Department of Business Administration Nusa Cendana University

Abstract: This study aims to describe the public private partnership model in tourism development in Timor Tengah Selatan (TTS) Regency. The research approach using qualitative methods, with documentation, observation, in-depth interviews, and literature review techniques. The research findings show that the tourism development policy of the Timor Tengah Sealatan
Regency is realized in the form of the TTS Regency Regulation Number 3 of 2018 concerning the South Timor Regency Tourism Development Master Plan. Empirical facts show that there are external dynamics in the form of conflicts of interest and internal dynamics of the bureaucracy in tourism development in TTS Regency. Public private partnerships in tourism development in TTS Regency are mainly still dominated by the government, where partnerships with the private sector are based on an explicit written contractual mechanism, while partnerships with the community are more prominent using implicit contractual mechanisms on the basis of trust according to the context of the local community. It is necessary to develop a public private partnership pilot project in tourism development that refers to Regional Regulation No. 3 of 2018. The implication of this research is that public private partnership which refers to the concept of new public management theory on the basis of a combination of administration, management, law and economic theories, for example, must be based on also on social capital as local wisdom and value systems that develop in the community according to the context such as meup tabua and nekmese as they live and develop in the TTS community.

Keywords: Tourism, Public Private Partnership, Local Wisdom

I. INTRODUCTION

Tourism development needs to be carried out because tourism is a sector that has a multiplier effect, an industry that is never saturated, a source of income for the community and government, and boosts economic growth. Tourism can be a potent development tool, generating economic growth, diversifying the economy, contributing to poverty alleviation and also creating backward and forward linkages to other production and service sectors (Christie and Crompton, 2003: 63). At the global level, tourism is seen as the main source of the formation of global domestic product – GDP (Graci., 2013).
At the regional level, both the provincial government of East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) and the district government of South Central Timor (TTS) have set tourism as a priority program. The policy is based on the belief that tourism will encourage economic growth. However, tourism has been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic where tourist visits to the TTS district in

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