Open AccessThe effect of infrastructure development on the development of tourism area and living environment of Carocok Beach, Painan
Author(s) -
Erasukma Munaf,
Syamsul Amar,
Idris,
Damel Van Wanda,
Zikri Alhadi
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/314/1/012049
Subject(s) - tourism , multicollinearity , nonprobability sampling , business , sample (material) , government (linguistics) , development plan , geography , marketing , regional science , statistics , civil engineering , engineering , regression analysis , mathematics , chemistry , demography , archaeology , population , linguistics , philosophy , chromatography , sociology
Carocok beach tourism destination is one of the integrated tourism development areas in Pesisir Selatan district, West Sumatra province which already has a Master Plan. The purpose of the study was to investigate the effect of infrastructure development on the development of tourism and the environment in the Carocok beach tourism area. This study is a causal method survey research involving 180 respondents, stakeholders of the Carocok beach tourism area including the Government, private parties, non-governmental organizations, tourists, and local residents. The sample selection is done in a convenient purposive sampling manner. Data analysis used path analysis which was preceded by test data requirements: normality, multicollinearity, autocorrelation, and heteroscedasticity. The research error rate was set at 5%. The results of the study show that infrastructure development has a significant direct effect on the development of tourism and the environment. Tourism development also has a significant direct effect on the environment.