Pengaruh Wisata Situ terhadap Perubahan Sosial Ekologi dan Sosial Ekonomi Masyarakat Sekitar: Kawasan Wisata Air Situ Gede, Kota Bogor, Provinsi Jawa Barat

Abstract

Tourism sector shows the development and the increasing economic contribution as a source of State revenue. Tourism is the fastest growing industry in the world (WTO, 2000), involving 657 million tourist visits in 1999 with the receipt of $ 455 billion in the world. The existence of the tourism gives influence to the social conditions of the ecological and social economic community and does not cover the possibility of causing ecological crisis on sustainability. Therefore this research carried out study on the influence of tourism there against ecological and social change social economy community around in tourist areas Situ Gede by using the questionnaire and in-depth interviews methods. The results of this study showed that the presence of the ecotourism suitability of tourism Situ Gede with motor boat that is very appropriate and support the power of 64 people every day had no effect on the social economic and social ecological community, and not effect to the ecological crisis.