The Study on the sustainable development of Agrotourism (The Case in Agrowisata Bina Darma in the District of Ogan Ilir, South Sumatera)

Abstract

Tourism is one of the sources of economy development which is growing so fast now. The kind of tourisms which has the big potential to develop is agro tourism. One of them is an Agro Wisata Bina Darma. Yet, it has not been developed fully and utilised optimally up to now, so we need to do the study about the study on the sustainable development of agrotourism, the case is taken in Agrowisata Bina Darma. The purpose of the research is to estimate the carrying capacity, prefeasibility on economy in the developing in Agrowisata Bina Darma and formulating the sustainable agro tourism in Agrowisata Bina Darma. The result of analysis on economy prefeasibilty determines that Agrowisata Bina Darma is deserved to be developed sustainably either to scenarios on managing each tourist area or roundtrip ticket. The carrying capacity to develop Agro Wisata Bina Darma is still good. Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) shows that appropriate strategy (prime priority) to develop Agro Wisata Bina Darma is the sustainable strategy to increase promotion about Agro Wisata Bina Darma. The recommendation which is proposed that the organiser can increase an extra hour visit for each guest for tourist objects which have limited hour if there is an increase significantly on visitors.