HABITUS PENGEMBANGAN DESA WISATA KUWU: STUDI KASUS DESA WISATA KUWU KECAMATAN KRADENAN KABUPATEN GROBOGAN

Abstract

This research aimed to find out the tourism potency, practice (habitus
and domain capital), supporting and inhibiting dimensions, strategy, and the
effect of Kuwu Tourism Village Development in Kradenan Subdistrict of
Grobogan Regency of Central Java using Pierce F Bourdieu’s Practical
Theory and Robert K. Merton’s Structural Functionalism Theory. This study
was a qualitative research using case study strategy. The data source of
research included informant, archive and document. The sampling technique
used was purposive sampling. Technique of collecting data used in this
research was in-depth interview and observation. The result of research show
that many tourism potentials had not been explored yet in Kuwu Village,
either social or cultural. Habitus and economic capital, social capital,
cultural capital, and symbolic capital of Kuwu villagers could be utilized in
Kuwu tourism village domain to develop Kuwu tourism village. But in fact, the
habitus and capital the Kuwu villagers had, had not been utilized and
developed optimally. The supporting dimensions in Kuwu tourism village
development included the presence of Bledug Kuwu natural phenomenon,
social cultural potency, and accessible road. Meanwhile, the inhibiting
dimension derived from government, community, physical condition and
external parties (investor and Non Governmental Organization). The tourism
development strategy was taken by regency government and village
government, in which the development still focused on Bledug Kuwu tourism
object. The effect of Kuwu Tourism Village viewed from social economic
aspect occurred only in some people obtaining additional income from their
participation in becoming food sellers, parking personnel and etc in Bledug
Kuwu. The social cultural effect was the preserved Javanese traditional art
with the organization of art performance in Bledug Kuwu Tourism object. The
environmental effect could be seen only in the Kuwu (Krajan) Hamlet people
who had disposed the rubbish in the permanent rubbish place.

Keywords: Habitus, Capital, Tourism Development, Tourism Sociology