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Sidomulyo Village has succeeded in developing village tourism during the hustle and bustle of urban life and delivering real benefits to the local community. One of the key factors was the prevalence of social capital underpinning strong engagement of the local community to support the programs. In light of this success, this study further observes the factors determining social capital and found an overall improvement of the quality of life of the local people as a direct impact of this rural based tourism development in Sidomulyo. This study deploys descriptive statistical analysis to reveal the baseline characteristics in relation to social capital and quality of life in Sidomulyo. Subsequently, a CFA framework was applied to determine the factors forming social capital and quality of life. Meanwhile, an analysis using a SEM technique was done to identify the relationship between social capital and quality of life. This study observed the components of quality of life which consists of material, community, emotional, health, and safety. The result shows that 81% of the quality of life is influenced by social capital in relation to the health and safety components. Social capital is important in facilitating the community's activities, especially tourism involving many people. Good social capital will affect the quality of life of the people of Sidomulyo Village through trust, norms, and networks that will make the community cooperate and support the development of tourism in Sidomulyo Village.

This study examines the agropolitan-based Oro-Oro Ombo Tourism Village. It aims to (1) determine the potential, (2) analyze 4-A (attraction, accessibility, amenities, and ancillary) in the development, and (3) know the achieved Village Development Index (Indeks Desa Membangun – IDM) based on the parameters of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2021 of the village. This quantitative-descriptive study used primary data (field observations, measurements, and interviews) and secondary data (study of previous research and information from related agencies such as the Central Bureau of Statistics and Tourism Office). The data were processed using descriptive statistics from the Analysis of Operational Area of Natural Tourism Attractions and Objects (Analisis Daerah Operasional Objek dan Daya Tarik Wisata Alam – ADO-ODTWA), which was converted using scoring and single tabulation techniques. The ADO-ODTWA results show that Oro-Oro Ombo has potential tourist attractions, and based on the 4-A analysis, this tourism village has excellent local potential. These results are relevant to the IDM of Oro Oro Ombo that is 0.9981. Based on the explanation above, it shows that sustainable development in agropolitan tourism villages cannot be separated from stakeholders (government, local communities, and private parties) to optimize the local potential of the region and improve the economy and welfare of the community to achieve Indonesia’s 2021 Sustainable Development Goals.

This study aims to explain the higher education institution's role in developing Koto Sentajo as tourism village and to understand the tourism communication model that synergizes with other stakeholders. This study uses a qualitative approach that emphasizes more on depth. The method describing is done by the reality that occurs by interacting directly with the research subject. The results showed that higher education institutions have an essential role in developing a tourism village development model. This communication model is useful for attracting local governments and other stakeholders to establish the Koto Sentajo tourism village. The penta helix communication model involves five main actors, namely the campus, corporate CSR, the community, the mass media, and the Kuantan Singingi regency's local government, to develop the tourism village. The communication and collaboration between stakeholders in empowering the community can accelerate the Koto Sentajo tourism village's realization as a leading cultural heritage destination.

The concept of community-based tourism village development becomes important in the sustainable tourism development strategy part. The study aims to formulate a community-based tourism village development strategy with a case in the Borobudur tourism village area. The research uses strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) approaches. The identification of factors was obtained from field observations, interviews, and focus group discussions with key elements of the community and stakeholders. The results showed that the strength and opportunities factors had an importance score and the percentage of agreement was higher than the weakness and threat factors. Community-based tourism village development strategies can be carried out with more emphasis on strategies that rely on strengths and opportunities, through S-O and W-O strategies, relative to weaknesses and threats, through S-T and W-T strategies. However, the implementation of the four strategies is still being carried out because they will complement each other in order to achieve the goal of the development of a tourism strategic area through community-based tourism villages.

Environmental measurement standards of various events that are easy to understand are currently still in a debate in various sustainable tourism studies. This study aims to develop an environmental measurement model based on community participation and harmonious culture in an event activity in a tourism village. This study uses two approaches, qualitative and quantitative. Event organizers are selected as the research informants to deeply explore the event implementation. The result of qualitative data processing is used as a base in questionnaire construction. Respondents are selected using stratified proportional random sampling and 82 event organizers has fulfilled the questionnaire correctly. The qualitative result indicates that belief system, cultural values, and community participation are new variables to measure green event. The quantitative result indicates that event organizers have good understanding on harmonious culture-integrated environmental measurement indicators. The trial result of the model on a case study of Cultic event finds that harmonization with God and Human dominate the event activities, whereas harmonization with environment is mostly immeasurable since the event is a traditional community- and cultural-based event. The research result contributes to the development sustainability theory, especially in environmental management. The model attributes can be developed further by adding several indicators, such as government, supplier, and the existing associations.