Collaborative Governance in Ecotourism: The Quintuple Helix Model at Banyuurip Mangrove Center, Gresik Regency, Indonesia

Banyuurip Mangrove Center is an ecotourism in a coastal area initiated by community groups and the Village Government. Its governance is carried out collaboratively by 5 helix systems, namely the education system, economic system, political system, media-based and culture-based people and the natural environment. This study aims to analyze stakeholder involvement according to their respective competencies by focusing on nature conservation, improving the local economy and tourism services. This study also explains stakeholder innovation towards sustainable ecotourism governance, and reveals supporting factors and inhibiting factors for collaboration. The study uses a qualitative method with a case study approach in ecotourism governance using the quintuple helix model theory. The results of the study revealed that each helix works well in collaboration. The education system and economic system support improving the quality of human resources in the field of mangrove conservation and the local economy. The Political System plays a role in budget policies and coordination with other actors and has not been completed in the ecotourism governance regulation policy. Pokdarwis provides tourism services and branding, with constrain in tourism promotion,, while the natural environment focuses on mangrove nursery and planting activities. Supporting factors for collaboration are support from the Village Head, wetland ecosystems and community support, while the inhibiting factors are the absence of regulations after the end of the Ujungpangkah Essential Ecosystem Area, the absence of ecotourism governance regulations, the lack of quality tourism promotion actors and the lack of regeneration mangrove conservation actors. This study also modifies the quintuple helix model with network governance to reveal the dominance of the Village Head in implementing the lead organization network model, leading and coordinating stakeholders in collaborative governance.