Open AccessEffect of Community Reception to Sustainable Ecotourism Development
Author(s) -
Ainur Rochmaniah
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
prosiding semnasfi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2598-1064
DOI - 10.21070/semnasfi.v1i1.1162
Subject(s) - archipelagic state , tourism , ecotourism , government (linguistics) , business , sustainable development , environmental planning , sustainable tourism , marketing , visitor pattern , local government , geography , environmental resource management , political science , computer science , linguistics , philosophy , archaeology , law , programming language , environmental science
Tourism has been an icon of countless regions in Indonesia since the founding of "Visit to Indonesia" in 2009 by the Government. All efforts were made by stakeholders (Government, managers of tourism destination, hotels and surrounding communities) in order to increase the visit of local tourist (Wiscal), archipelagic tourist (Wisnu) and foreign tourists (Wisman), one of the method is by implementing Saptapesona. The goal of this research is to distinguish the influence of reception of society of Sidoarjo toward marine ecotourism development through the implementation of Saptapesona. The type of this study is quantitative with data acquisition technique through observation and questionnaire, distributed to tourism managers, village and district government staff, and tourists in three different locations namely Sedati, Candi, and Jabon respectively for about 144 respondents. The data analysis was using simple linear regression. The results showed that there was a significant influence of community receptions on the development of marine ecotourism.