Eco-tourism in community-based tourism: a case study of Pentingsari tourism village
Riswandha Risang Aji, Muhammad Fakhriza, Fadhlul Razak, Mochamad Rifky Ferbiyandani
Urban and Regional Planning UNISBA
Abstract
Environment is related to tourism as one of its components to maintain tourism sustainability. Eco-tourism is environment-based tourism that run by community to improve community capital which lived in its community. The community capitals that can be an input to community-based tourism which will practice the eco-tourism. This research aims to explain how the eco-tourism can be implemented through community-based tourism. The findings of this research are Pentingsari tourism village reach self-organisation through community-based tourism concept by using human and social capitals that the community have, Pentingsari tourism village reach self-sustainability through community-based tourism concept by using natural and cultural capitals, and from self-organisation and self-sustainability Pentingsari tourism village can provide eco-tourism to its tourists. This research concludes eco-tourism in Pentingsari village can be reached by using self-organisation and self-sustainability. Self-organisation and self-sustainability can be reached by using community capitals in community-based tourism concept.
Keywords: Eco-tourism, community-based tourism, sustainability
Topic: Environmental Engineering