Developing Interpretation Route And Program Of Agrotourism (Case Study : Malang Regency, East Java Province)

Abstract

Agrotourism is the form of tourism which capitalizes on rural culture as a tourist attraction. It is similar to ecotourism except that its primary appeal is not the natural landscape but a cultural landscape. An advantage agrotourism approach is that rural areas are popular destinations for holidays and excursions, particularly cultural landscapes which still give a review of how previous generations lived and worked. Agrotourism is well known in Malang Regency. Agriculture industries growth well, supporting with the suitable condition such as land condition, weather in these places. The variation of plants and the beauty sceneries are the attractive things beside the visitors allow to get interact with the objects. For example they can pick fruits, learn more about plant or just buy some souvenir. The objectives in this research are to identify attractive agrotourism tourism objects in Malang Regency, identify agrotourism activities mainly based on farm activities and to develop the agrotourism interpretation route and programs. Geography Information System (GIS) is used as the main tools to process the analysis.