Entrepreneur is believed as the backbone of the economy. Very few studies in NTT, and none in Rote, have explored this area in the context of tourism. Based on ethnographic research, this study focuses on local tourism entrepreneurship in the context of socio-cultural complexities of Delha’s community, Rote. This qualitative research aimed to discusses how local entrepreneurs respond to every opportunity and challenge, due to cultural remoteness of host communities to tourism-related business. Data were collected with observations and in depth interview with life history approach. The findings show that social capital has been utilized by the local entrepreneur in responding to every opportunity and challenge. Bonding social capital has a large role at start up, while bridging social capital provides wider outside networks to maintain and develop bigger business. In this study, linking social capital has found very limited. Even though linking social capital plays an important role in supporting capital supports, business licenses, and other facilities that help a lot in business development. Given the literature, this is not a mainstream result, kinship and solidarity as a form of social capital does not always support the entrepreneurial process, particularly in the context of communal society. As a recommendation, the culture of collectivity that developed strongly in Delha community can be utilized as social capital in developing socio-enterprise.

Model pengembangan desa wisata menjadi salah satu agenda pembangunan nasional yang cukup efektif dalam meningkatkan kesejahteraan di desa. Namun demikian, maraknya pengembangan desa wisata belum didukung oleh upaya perencanaan produk pariwisata yang maksimal. Oleh karena itu, peningkatan kapasitas Pokdarwis dalam mengemas potensi – potensi wisata untuk menjadi produk pariwisata yang siap jual sangat diperlukan sebagai upaya mendistribusikan manfaat ekonomi pariwisata ke desa-desa. Upaya peningkatan kapasitas masyarakat ini dilakukan secara multidisiplin ilmu dengan menggunakan metode Focus Group Discussion (FGD) dan workshop. Hasil dari kegiatan ini adalah terlaksanakannya proses identifikasi potensi dan komponen wisata yang tersedia, serta teridentifikasikannya target pasar, unique selling point dan penentuan harga jual. Kegiatan pengabdian masyarakat ini telah memampukan masyarakat dalam mengelola dan memasarkan desa wisata melalui paket wisata.

Artikel ini mengeksplorasi perkembangan pariwisata internasional di daerah kurang berkembang dan melihat hubungannya dengan pembangunan daerah di Delha, Rote. Kritik terhadap pariwisata internasional menjadi landasan teori dalam mengkaji dampak positif dan negatif dari hadirnya pembangunan pariwisata di tengah kehidupan masyarakat lokal. Penelitian ini adalah penelitian kualitatif dengan menganalisa hasil wawancara yang dilakukan kepada 16 informan terdiri dari 6 informan kunci dan 10 informan pendukung. Informan kunci diantaranya adalah petani rumput laut dan wisatawan residensial. Petani rumput laut memiliki keistimewaan dalam penelitian ini karena sebagai pengguna pantai yang livelihood nya banyak bersinggungan langsung dengan pariwisata residensial. Selain itu, suara petani rumput laut mewakili kelompok marjinal yang suaranya jarang didengar oleh pemangku kepentingan pariwisata dan para pembuat kebijakan. Sementara itu, komposisi informan yang terdiri dari informan lokal dan asing ditujukan untuk mendapatkan perspektif yang seimbang tentang hubungan keduanya. Penelitian dilakukan selama 4 bulan dari Juli hingga Oktober 2017. Temuan menunjukkan bahwa hadirnya pariwisata residensial di Delha dengan pembangunan villa - villa  pribadi telah berkontribusi positif mentransformasi wilayah Delha melalui transfer knowledge,  membuka lapangan kerja dan sumber pendapatan baru. Namun demikian, penelitian ini juga mempertimbangkan konsekuensi negatif dari perkembangan pariwisata residensial yang  semakin ekspansif seperti berkurangnya kepemilikan lahan oleh masyarakat lokal dan ancaman terhadap mata pencaharian lokal. Hal ini membuktikan bahwa segala bentuk privatisasi dan penggunaan lahan secara masif justru akan mengancam keberlanjutan masyarakat lokal di masa mendatang. Pembangunan semestinya membuka seluruh akses ekonomi bagi masyarakat luas tanpa ada diskriminasi, ini adalah dasar bagi demokrasi ekonomi yang melandasi pembangunan ekonomi secara inklusif dan adil bagi semua pihak.

Wae Bobok is a forest area in Tanjung Boleng Village, West Manggarai Regency, that used as a rest area for local people who drive between districts as well as an ecotourism destination. Not only a variety of special culinary, Wae Bobok offers a number of attractions in surrounding area, such as view point, spring, waterfall, outbond and camping site. Interpretive media is one aspect that needs to be developed in Wae Bobok in order to improve the quality of ecotourism destinations and increase knowledge for tourists. This community service activity aims to provide knowledge regarding the concept of interpretation and train the community in developing interpretation media in Wae Bobok area. By using a community based-development approach and field observations, this activity try to produce a short narrative of tourist attractions in Wae Bobok area as well as interpretive media such as brochure and promotional video that can be used by visitors.

The development of tourism has a negative impact on the environment of new management practices in the tourism industry, namely tourism villages. Tourism villages are also a form of implementing sustainable development goals. As one of the tourist villages in West Manggarai Regency, Wae Lolos Village must be able to be managed into a tourism village that is following the goals of sustainable development, so it is essential to manage a tourist village that understands the management of a tourist village under the goals of sustainable development. There are public lectures, pre-and post-tests, and self assessment using the global sustainable tourism council criteria in community service activities—Results of increasing mean value between the pre-test and post-test indicate the understanding of sustainable development goals. In addition, based on the GSTC aspect of the destination category, the aspect of governance is the aspect that has the most percentage of met criteria, but environmental aspects are the aspects that have presentation criteria. Wae Lolos Village uses the GSTC criteria as a measuring tool for monitoring and evaluating the performance of tourism villages.