Green Village For Sustainable Tourism on Srimulyo Village Piyungan Bantul
Danang Wahyudi Erni Ummi Hasanah Mochamad Syamsiro Retno Lantarsih Hermawan Prasetyanto Evi Gravitiani
Universitas Janabadra STP AMPTA Universitas Sebelas Maret
Abstract
Green tourism is one form of ecotourism, emphasis on national park or protected area as a tourism destination. Green tourism can be a part of green life style as a green mind. The aim of this study is the implementation of Green Village management on Sitimulyo, Piyungan, Bantul, Yogyakarta and reform Sitimulyo to be one of tourism destination. Based on a process of action research, this paper explores the attitudes and perceptions towards sustainability and how they influenced the people engagement. We demonstrate that the partnership was effective in enabling the villagers engaged in the project to take control over the process. Behaviour changes were reported by the villagers actively engaged with the initiative. The Green Village did not snowball to the entire community, however many of those who chose not to engage associated the word Green with traits that they did not identify with.
Keywords: green village, sustainable tourism, Sitimulyo village, Bantul Yogyakarta
Topic: Environmental Economics and Sustainable Development