Abstract
Toward the Community-based Sustainable Marine Tourism: Identifying the Impact of Tourism Development in Karimunjawa Island
Highlights
Tourism is one of the strategic sectors in the economic development of a region
This study focuses on the opinion of the local community as we understand that local people have their local knowledge and local wisdom on how to conserve the environment as their lives depend on the sustainability of the environment
We determine a quorum of 50 people to fill out the survey which consists of two groups of those who work in the tourism business sector and those who live in surrounding tourism attractions to find out local people’s opinion about the impacts of conventional tourism in Karimunjawa Island
Summary
Tourism is one of the strategic sectors in the economic development of a region. Tourism is no longer a journey activity for leisure, and a social and economic activity which is inseparable from people’s life. In order to assess the impacts of tourism, most studies have identified the positive and negative impacts on tourism from three aspects: economic, sociocultural, and environmental (García, Vázquez, & Macías, 2015) From these aspects, we could see the quality of life of local communities who live in surrounding tourist destinations. Tourism in Bali, for example, brings more positive impacts on economic and sociocultural, but unfavorable impacts on environmental aspects (Ernawati, Sudarmini, & Sukmawati, 2018) Despite those threats and risks, governments in many countries still depend on the tourism sector to develop their region in any means, if those destinations possess limited economic resources. This paper aims to identify the economic, social, and environmental impacts caused by conventional tourism development in Karimunjawa Island, Indonesia. This study highlights the importance of community participation in developing community-based sustainable marine
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