Local community participation in ecotourism development, the case of Sumberwangi Hamlet Destination, East Java, Indonesia
Sumberwangi hamlet is a traditional mountainous hamlet located in Arjuno Mountain in Donowarih village East Java. Mount Arjuno has been known as a mountainous tourist destination, as place for climbing, camping, trail for adventurers. Many adventure tourism activities were already existedin Mount Arjuno. The hamlet located closed to important natural tourist destinations on the slopes of Mount Arjuno.
Brawijaya University (UB) manage one forest area in Mountain Arjuno as living laboratory, supervised by Indonesia Ministry of Environment. The management includes three hamlets, on of it is Sumberwangi hamlet. It closed to other UB forest Village (Sumbersari Village). The highlands topography give specific characteristic to the hamlet and the cool climatelike typical highlands. The forest produce Javanese coffee such as Arabicaand Robusta. These attractiveness make Sumberwangi hamlet feasible to be developed as rural ecotourism.
Sumberwangi hamlet located closed to Pinus village, that will be developed as tourist attractions. It is proposed to provide tracking and hiking tourism, camping, also education tourism activity such as habitat watching. Hopefully various visitor community groups such as family group, students, government and foreign tourists usually spend their holiday travel in Arjuno area.
Being in Brawijaya University (UB forest) forest makes this village become stopover area for visitors who come to UB forest for educational or research purposes for UB’s researchers and other institution’s researcher both from within and outside the Malang city. Besides that, UB forest is often visited for business purposes such as the regional and central government as well as the UB forest management team which has an interest in managing UB forest. While the object is a conservation area, and also the places for the field of research, it is important to develop the Sumberwangi village area.
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