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Tourism and Cultural Landscape at the Tengger, East Java, Indonesia: The Implications for Ecotourism Planning  

Hakim, Luchman (Department of Biology, Brawijaya Univ., Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation, Hiroshima Univ.)
Hong, Sun-Kee (Institute of Islands Culture, Mokpo National Univ.)
Kim, Jae-Eun (Institute of Islands Culture, Mokpo National Univ.)
Nakagoshi, Nobukazu (Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation, Hiroshima Univ.)
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Korean Journal of Environment and Ecology / v.22, no.3, 2008 , pp. 207-220 More about this Journal
Abstract
Tourism in the natural environment grows significantly and in many tropical countries it becomesthe important earning of the nations. Nevertheless, tourism impact to environment and cultural values has become the threats to the sustainability and competitiveness of such industry. Therefore, the appropriate planning and management of tourism destination sites where environmentally and culturally fragile are needed in order to increase economic benefits, sustain local culture and conserve environment in balance. The aims of the paper are to examine tourism practices, to determine socio-cultural and natural resources, and to assess local people perception to cultural landscape and its future tourism development in order to formulate the appropriate strategies to achieve sustainable tourism. A case study was carried out at Tengger highland, Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park(BTSNP) East Java. Official documents were gathered and interviews with several key persons had conducted to determine recent status of tourism, resources capital and the existence of local people. Semi-structured interviews and questionnaires were carried out at Tenggerese villages to explore local people perspectives to tourism development, culture preservation, and cultural landscape conservation issues. It is followed by descriptive analysis of vegetation to assess the recent status of environments based on vegetation information. Our findings reveals that tourism grows significantly at BTSNP, and Tengger Caldera as spiritual and cultural sites for local people become the centre for tourism activities. The abundance cultural and natural resources are the significant capital for sustainable tourism. Tenggerese argues that tourism should be planned to provide benefits to local people, preserve tradition and able to conserve nature in order to ensure the living sustainability of Tenggerese. The overall result of the study provide general feature of recent status of the cultural and natural resources as well as positive society perception in order to establish a strategy for sustainable tourism in cultural landscape.
Keywords
CULTURE; INDIGENEOUS KNOWLEDGE; LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION; TOURISM DEVELPMENT; TRADITIONAL CUSTOMS;
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