Women’s Roles in Homestay Operations in Sayan Village: Everyday Practices and Household-Based Tourism Work

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https://doi.org/10.29303/intour.v4i2.2688

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women, homestay, tourism work, Sayan village, household-based tourism, rural tourism

Abstract

This study explores the everyday work practices of women who own and manage family-based homestays in Sayan Village, Ubud, Bali. The research aims to describe the operational roles undertaken by female owner-managers and examine how these responsibilities intersect with their domestic routines. A qualitative descriptive design was employed, involving in-depth interviews and non-participant observations with eight women who have operated their homestays for five to fifteen years. The findings indicate that women carry out a wide range of tasks, including housekeeping, breakfast preparation, guest relations, booking communication, and basic financial documentation. These responsibilities are performed alongside ongoing domestic duties, creating a continuous rhythm of household and tourism work within the same spatial and temporal setting. The study shows that women’s hands-on involvement forms the core of homestay service delivery and underpins the personalized atmosphere characteristic of family-run accommodations. These findings contribute to a deeper understanding of micro-level tourism labor in rural Bali and highlight the essential role of women in sustaining homestay quality.

Author Biographies

Putu Ratih Pertiwi, Udayana University

Putu Ratih Pertiwi is an Assistant Professor in the Applied Bachelor Program of Hotel Management at the Faculty of Tourism, Universitas Udayana. She earned her Doctoral degree in Tourism from the École Doctorale Sociétés, Temps, Territoires, Université d’Angers, France (2019–2023), where her dissertation examined homestay development in Ubud and Blimbingsari through a comparative qualitative case study grounded in constructivist epistemology. She also holds a Double Degree Master’s in Tourism Studies from Universitas Udayana and Université d’Angers, as well as a Bachelor of Applied Hotel Administration from the Bali Tourism Institute. Her research interests focus on sustainable tourism, rural tourism, tourist villages, and locally based accommodation systems, particularly homestays, emphasizing community empowerment and culturally grounded models of sustainability.

Agung Sri Sulistyawati, Udayana Univeristy

Agung Sri Sulistyawati is an an Assistant Professor in the Applied Bachelor Program of Hotel Management, Faculty of Tourism, Udayana University. She is currently pursuing her doctoral degree at the Doctoral Program in Tourism, Faculty of Tourism, Udayana University. Her research interests focus on sustainable glamping development in rural areas, particularly examining tourists’ sustainable behaviour within the accommodation setting, its surrounding environment, and the broader destination context.

Ni Putu Ratna Sari, Udayana Univeristy

Ni Putu Ratna Sari is an Assistant Professor in the Applied Bachelor Program of Hotel Management, Faculty of Tourism, Udayana University. Before entering academia, she worked for eight years in the hotel industry. She earned her doctoral degree from the Doctoral Program in Tourism, Faculty of Tourism, Udayana University, in 2019. Her research interests include hospitality and tourism, hotel management, socio-cultural aspects of tourism, and human resource development, grounded in her extensive professional and academic experience in the hotel and tourism sectors. She currently serves as the Coordinator of the Applied Bachelor Program of Hotel Management, Faculty of Tourism, Udayana University.

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2025-12-08

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Pertiwi, P. R., Sulistyawati, A. S., & Ratna Sari, N. P. . (2025). Women’s Roles in Homestay Operations in Sayan Village: Everyday Practices and Household-Based Tourism Work: English. International Journal of Tourism Business Research, 4(2), 115–124. https://doi.org/10.29303/intour.v4i2.2688

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