Empowerment
of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises is a series of efforts to prepare
resources to increase awareness of their potential and strive to develop it and
realize the ability and independence in innovation, especially for business
actors. Culinary Tourism Center (SWK) is one of the micro small and medium
enterprises or an area that provides a variety of food dishes consisting of
several outlets or small stands from street vendors. One of the culinary
tourism centers located in Penjaringan Sari Village, Surabaya City, experienced
a lack of visitors due to the lack of food and beverage innovation from
business actors, lack of marketing promotion media, the organizational
management system was still not implemented optimally and the adjacent landfills,
which resulted in visitors who bought food and drinks feeling disturbed by the
presence of landfills. The purpose of the study was to describe and analyze
community empowerment of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises through Culinary
Tourism Centers in Surabaya City. This type of research uses descriptive
qualitative, the focus of this research is the theory of empowerment according
to Sumadyo in (Hidayatullah and Suminar 2021) and Mardikanto in every effort to
empower the community, namely human development, business development,
environmental development, and institutional development.
Conclusions
related to the Analysis of the Empowerment Program for Micro, Small and Medium
Enterprises through the Surabaya City Culinary Tourism Center case study of the
Surabaya City Penjaringan Sari Culinary Tourism Center. At this stage of human
development, the Surabaya City Office of Small and Medium Enterprises
Cooperatives and Trade still has not prepared assistance, program adjustments
and evaluations for culinary tourism center actors in Penjaringan Sari,
Surabaya City. At this stage of business development, culinary tourism center
business actors are no longer given additional rent, only pay for culinary
tourism center operations such as cleaning, electricity and water. Business
actors still do not promote food and drinks properly. Environmental development
in this case includes management of the physical environment, environmental
awareness, as well as environmental governance and compliance and collaboration
with the Surabaya City Office of Small and Medium Enterprises Cooperatives and
Trade. The layout of the location of the Penjaringan Sari culinary tourism
center is adjacent to a public dumping site which results in visitors feeling
uncomfortable with the odor produced by the public dumping site. Institutional
Development of the Surabaya City Office of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
Cooperatives and Trade has provided coordinates in each culinary tourism center
in Surabaya which is responsible for establishing a strong organizational
structure, increasing managerial and administrative capacity and also
developing effective procedures carried out by traders in the Penjaringan Sari
culinary tourism center in Surabaya City.
Keyword : Empowerment Program Analysis, Micro, Small and
Medium Enterprises, Culinary Tourism Center