Abstract
Blanakan mangrove forest is a form of biodiversity wealth owned by Indonesia. This forest has several tourism objects both in terms of nature and culture. Natural attraction such as mangrove diversity, crocodile breeding sites, and mangrove zonation. Cultural attraction such as Nadran ceremonies (sea party) and Sisingaan. Based on tourist visit data, the number of tourists has increase from year to year. However, it is feared to cause environmental damage and inconvenience for visitors. Therefore, the physical carrying capacity as the maximum number of tourists in tourist area needs to be taken into account. This research aims to analyze the physical carrying capacity of Blanakan mangrove ecotourism. The method of the research is quantitative method. This research analyzed by physical carrying capacity method. The result is the physical carrying capacity is 77.000 visitors/day. Relative carrying capacity is 2.750 visitors/day and effective carrying capacity is 825 visitors/day. While, the average tourist visit rate per day is 57 people. This research that the carrying capacity of the Blanakan mangrove ecotourism has not been exceeded.
Highlights
Indonesia has wealth of nature in the form of high biodiversity (Flora and Fauna)
Real carrying capacity (RCC), which is the maximum number of visitors allowed for an immediate location after correction factors are derived from special features of a place have been treated with Physical carrying capacity (PCC)
Effective carrying capacity (ECC), which is the maximum number of visitors per person that can be accommodate place with availability of capacity management
Summary
Indonesia has wealth of nature in the form of high biodiversity (Flora and Fauna). The example of biodiversity is mangrove ecosystem. Ecotourism is a tourism activity to understand nature and socio-culture which provide economic opportunities for local society without destroying the natural balance functions [11]. Mangrove forest Blanakan has great potential to be developed as tourist attraction. The great potential tourist attraction in mangrove forest Blanakan can be increase the interest of tourist visits. It can be seen from the increasing number of visitors from year to year. By the calculate carrying capacity in tourism area, the managers can determine the maximum number of visitors so that they are comfortable traveling in Blanakan mangrove forest. The benefits of this research are provide an alternative in determining the policy of mangrove ecotourism development which still attention to the condition of ecology, social, and economy of the surrounding society; provide insight to the society about the benefits of mangrove forest for the socio-economic life of the society; provide information for ecotourism’s manager to developed of sustainable ecotourism management
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