Sustainability of Tourism Villages in Madura

This research aims to analyze the sustainability of tourist villages in Madura. This research is very urgent because four districts in Madura have very large tourism village potential (145 villages), but village SDGs achievements are relatively low in East Java. Tourism villages are very strategic for achieving village SDGs, as an integrated and sustainable effort to create villages without poverty. The research results show that the development of tourist villages in Madura has been implemented on a massive scale but its sustainability is greatly influenced by community conflicts after the village head election. After the village head election, tourist villages are often characterized by two conflicting community groups, namely: the group supporting the elected village head and the group supporting the village head candidate who was not elected. A tourist village that has been developed by the previous village head will be guaranteed its sustainability if the new village head selected comes from the previous group of village heads and vice versa. So every change of village head often has implications for the sustainability of the tourist village. Many tourist villages in Madura were closed after a change of village head.