**6. Rural economic metabolism**

Thomas Norrby<sup>5</sup> of the Swedish Agricultural University and an expert in rural entrepreneurship stated that the macro-perspective states that the economy is an ecosystem in the sense that some businesses die, but in other business sectors it actually makes a profit, meaning that we must always be creative and keep moving to find entrepreneurial solutions to address problems, many players in the tourism sector are trying to fund efforts to diversify their businesses to generate income. At the same time, the pandemic resulted in many people becoming victims of layoffs, so they returned to their villages as their true homeland and tried to survive to continue to struggle for life, while some rural entrepreneurs tried to find strategies to survive. survive such cooperative efforts between tourism and agriculture sectors.

According to Arsyad [17], [18]. Professor of the Faculty of Economics and Business of Gajah Mada University in his book Local-based rural development strategies, rural economic development is a process by which village governments and communities manage existing resources and form a pattern of partnership between village governments and the private sector to create new jobs and stimulate the development of economic activities.
