Abstract
Clungup Mangrove Conservation (CMC) is the coastal area with the most complete ecosystem in Malang District. Since 2014, this place started to be known as the area of the conservation (tourism-based) with the best management, so it won the 1 st Adhibakti Minabahari with the category of Coastal Postponed Development. This achievement strongly supported by the role of volunteers who fight for the ecotourism management. Volunteer role is included the community involvement in the conservation activities in the region, starting from the CMC continues on the institutional establishment of ecotourism manager for CMC. The objectives of the study are to know and analyze the role of a volunteer on the management and the sustainability of the CMC ecotourism. The methods that were used are field observation, interview with the key stakeholders, and multi-dimension scale (MDS) method to analyze the sustainable management of CMC. The results of the survey revealed very important volunteer roles that involve 6 volunteer’s efforts from the beginning to the creation of ecotourism management by initiating rehabilitation, the establishment of institutional, and create jobs. Increasing the quality of ecology is indicated with an increase in mangrove covering through rehabilitation projects, an increase in coral reefs covering and abundance coral fishes, and economic benefits of additional income for 108 local people who work in ecotourism sector in CMC area. The average value of volunteer’s sustainability role in ecotourism management of CMC obtained with the acquisition of four-dimensional index value of 71.45. This value showed that aspects of ecology, social, economic, and institutional in ecotourism of CMC is fairly supported the sustainable development of ecotourism-based conservation in CMC. Keywords : Clungup Mangrove Conservation, ecotourism, sustainable, volunteer.
Highlights
Volunteers in this study were people who started the movement of rehabilitation, initiate the establishment of institutional management of ecotourism, and create jobs for the local community ecotourism
Increasing the quality of ecology is indicated with an increase in mangrove covering through rehabilitation projects, an increase in coral reefs covering and abundance coral fishes, and economic benefits of additional income for 108 local people who work in ecotourism sector in Clungup Mangrove Conservation (CMC) area
The purpose of this study is to find out how the role of the volunteer to ecotourism management in CMC and analyze the sustainability of ecotourism management in CMC tourism area
Summary
Volunteers in this study were people who started the movement of rehabilitation, initiate the establishment of institutional management of ecotourism, and create jobs for the local community ecotourism. Mangrove conservation activities are carried out by reforestation or mangrove planting in areas with low mangrove cover, whereas coral reef conservation is conducted through coral reef transplantation and cleanup activities in the coral reef ecosystem area, either from waste or competing biota on coral reef ecosystems [2] Most of these social organizations are traditionally managed. Ecotourism can be defined as a concept of sustainable tourism development that purposed to support environmental (natural and cultural) conservation efforts and increasing community participation in management, by providing economic benefits to local communities [5]. Ecotourism is defined as a responsible journey to a natural area that conserves the environment, sustains the prosperity of the local community, and involves interpretation and education It includes business, education, environment, and culture of local people and efforts of conservation of natural resources and environment [6]
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