Environmental sustainability through Sendang Sombomerti ecotourism management

Abstract

Ecotourism is a model of sustainable tourism that is environmentally sound and needs to be developed. Ecotourism needs to be developed because it prioritizes environmental sustainability and pays attention to the balance of interactions between humans and nature. Thus, finding out how and to what extent ecotourism management supports environmental sustainability is this research’s focus point and objective. The method used in this research is a qualitative descriptive type. The descriptive type was chosen because it aims to obtain an overview of how and to what extent the local community ability to preserve the environment through the management of Sendang Sombomerti ecotourism in Sombomerten Village, Sleman Regency, Yogyakarta. Primary data and secondary data also support data collection. Research informants were selected using the snowball sampling technique. The collected data were then analyzed using source triangulation. Based on the results of field data analysis, it is known that the local community management of Sendang Sombomerti ecotourism in preserving the environment can be categorized as good because it is by the principles of ecotourism development. So that realizing good environmental sustainability will be easily achieved and maintained, community economic sustainability will also be more easily realized.