The Feasibility of Curug Goong Planning Using Sustainable Tourism Village Approach Tarlani- Saraswati - Abdul Kudus- Irland Fardani- A.A fadlimat- R. Ekatresna
Universitas Islam Bandung
Abstract
Tourism is considered capable of growing the local economy. Besides the positive impact in the form of an economic increase in an area, there are also negative impacts on both social and environmental aspects. In the environmental aspect, tourism based on natural resources (non-artificial ) often bring out an environmental problems like waste pollution or environmental quality degradation. Dayeuhkolot Village, as a developing vil-lage, requires the strategies for increasing economic activities through tourism while it still keep considering the environmental aspect. Curug Goong is one of the tourism potentials site based on natural resources owned by Dayeuhkolot Village. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the calculation of the feasibility assessment of the Curug Goong tourism area planning with the environmental carrying capacity approach. The methodol-ogy in this study used a primary survey like observation and semi-structured interviews. By using the cost benefit approach, the analysis shows that the carrying capacity of Curug Goong tourism is 400 tourist per day with a total payback period of 4 years
