THE STRUCTURAL MODEL FOR EVALUATING THE ROLE OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN CULINARY TOURISM

This paper aimed to study the effects of local government role in developing culinary tourism sustainability. By choosing Kedonganan Beach, one of two famous culinary destination at Bali ? Indonesia, two types of government role namely regulative role and distributive role, were studied. These roles were positioned as exogenous latent variables in causal relationship with local community satisfaction toward the existence of culinary tourism at their village. Community satisfaction is measured thorough its formative constructs, i.e. communities‘ safety level, emotional level, economic condition, and social condition. The data were collected from 84 community leaders, both formal and informal leader, using tested questionnaires. The results show the government roles did not prove significantly affect culinary tourism sustainability and to its formative construct. Howeve r, three out of four constructs show significant effect to community satisfaction where the most influential construct in this relationship is economic condition of community