Efforts in preserving mangrove area through the boat tour along the Bengawan Solo river estuary, A case study in Pangkahwetan Village, Ujungpangkah, Kabupaten Gresik

Abstraksi

This study analyses the effort of the Pangkahwetan village in preserving mangrove area through the boat tour along the Bengawan Solo river estuary. The purpose of this writing to portray the involvement of the youth in developing a sustain local tourism development. The parameters used to determine the degree of youth participation in the development planning phase are the involvement in problem identification, objective formulation, and decision making related to the development of the local tourist attraction. This piece of writing analysed the five strategies of Pangkahwetan tourism community and their counterpart in creating sustainable tourism system. The SWOT analyses employ to analyse the five elements of strategies in creating sustainable tourism system. This approach is believed able to provide an holistic analysis in Community Based Tourism (CBT) development. The problems faced by the Pangkahwetan tourism community in managing their local tourist destination are lack of adequate human resources, limited of public facilities, limited financial support, lack of regulation that support the CBT, inter-organizational coordination problems, and property ownership. This writing found that the position of the village leader both formal and informal leader is significant in CBT Development. However, the sustainable tourism it self requires the government political will in the development of CBT.