Improving Local Community Knowledge and Skills in Homestay Management

Abstract

Nagari Tabek Panjang is one of Nagari (local government), which has several attractions located in Kecamatan Baso, Kabupaten Agam. One of them is the Ikan Sakti Sungai Janiah attraction. This attraction lacks tourist facilities for lodging in the form of Homestay. This can be developed by utilizing local community houses and traditional houses in the tourist attraction environment. However, local people do not yet understand how to prepare and manage Homestay that meet the standards. Collaboration between the University and the community is expected to provide a solution to the Improvement of Local Community Knowledge and Skills in Managing Homestay. The purpose of community service activities was to facilitate and help the community in terms of the problem faced. The form of activities that have been carried out is providing training on Homestay management, helping to identify and analyze a proper community house into a Homestay, making a pilot Homestay, and registering a Homestay brand. Besides, training on makeup room and Homestay promotion was also carried out through the Nagari web built by Universitas Negeri Padang and Homestay brochure.

Analisis Performa Homestay Desa Wisata untuk Mewujudkan Standarisasi di Kabupaten Kulon Progo

“…Keterbatasan pengetahuan dan keterampilan dari pengelola homestay dalam memberikan pelayanan kepada tamu domestik maupun mancanegara dapat diminimalisir melalui pelatihan terencana dengan pendekatan pembelajaran partisipatif dan andragogi (Maryani et al, 2017). Selain itu, berbagai upaya fasilitasi mampu membantu penyelesaian masalah masyarakat, melalui identifikasi rumah yang layak untuk homestay, membuat homestay percontohan, dan mendaftarkan brand homestay (Azwar et al, 2020). Peningkatan pemahaman masyarakat dapat dilakukan melalui dua model, yakni model kapasitas masyarakat berbasis kewirausahaan dan model pengelolaan homestay berbasis prinsip pemasaran digital.…”

Economic Contribution of Homestay Tourism: A Case Study of Magar Homestay of Naruwal, Lamjung

“…Although homestay is considered a relatively new concept, it is an age-old concept where travelers used to stay with a family as a guest and there was no concept of a commercial accommodation system. The word homestay is composed up of home and stay which refers to staying or loading in somebody's home as a guest by paying some monitory value on a rent basis for some specific tenure (Azwar, 2020). This term might be different in different countries.…”