“…First, street vendors are regarded as positive actors because of becoming visitor attractions (Anderson, 2008;Ariefianto and Hilmi, 2019;Privitera and Nesci, 2015), having interesting products and attractions (Manteiro et al, 2021;Çakmak et al, 2018), offering affordable prices (Manteiro et al, 2021) and increasing economy by opening new employments (Rosyidin, 2019;Mahful et al, 2018;Widiastini et al, 2018;Malasan, 2017;Son et al, 2019;May et al, 2021;Mariana and Muhrofi-G, 2016;Thomas, 2016;Widiastini and Mudana, 2016). Second, street vendors are considered negative, especially in terms of their products being of poor quality (Manteiro et al, 2021;Chayada, 2017), being less innovative because of acting as resellers (Çakmak et al, 2018), being less able to meet the buyers' needs (Damayanti et al, 2018), their services being less satisfactory due to unfair prices and unfriendliness, being disturbing (Alam et al, 2020), their businesses making the place cluttered and unfit the authority's planning (Baud and Ypeij, 2007;Çakmak et al, 2018;Warlina et al, 2021). With an increasing number of street vendors (Rosyidin, 2019), they are considered part of the picture of marginality and poverty (Das, 2019).…”