| dc.description.abstract | Tourism is one of the economic support systems that drives economic growth in Indonesia. Indonesia as a country with good tourist attractions has enormous potential in creating jobs. The greater the job opportunities, the lower the unemployment rate. The aim of this research is to: Analyze tourism development has a positive and significant effect on economic activities to improve community welfare in the Lake Toba area. Analyzing economic activities have a positive and significant impact on community welfare in the Lake Toba area. Analyzing tourism development has a significant positive influence on community welfare in the Lake Toba area. Analyzing tourism development has a significant positive influence on community welfare through economic activities in the Lake Toba area. With variables consisting of 3 elements. Variables consisting of indicators, namely: independent variable tourism development (X) with indicators: Policy (X1), institutions (X2), human resources (X3), facilities and infrastructure (X4), budget (X5), environment (X6), security (X7), social (X8), culture (X9), tourist attractions (X10), investment (X11), licensing (X12), promotion (X13), system (X14), traveler (X15). Intervening variables / variables between economic impact (Z) and indicators: economic growth (Z1), income (Z2), equity (Z3), poverty reduction (Z4), reduction of unemployment (Z5). Dependent variable of community welfare (Y) with indicators: equal income (Y1), health (Y2), education (Y3), information (Y4), consumption expenditures (Y5). Meanwhile, the research method model used is the SmartPLS approach version 3.2023 Boenningsted GmbH – Partial Least Square PSL model for Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) analysis based on components or variants and research based on distributing questionnaires or questionnaires, interviews, documentaries, observations, Focus Group Discussions (FGD) during the 2022-2023 research year. Total sample 351, total population 255652. Karo Regency, Simalungun Regency, North Tapanuli Regency, Pakpak Bharat Regency, Dairi Regency, Humbang Hasundutan Regency, Toba Regency, Samosir Regency. he results of the research show that the influence of tourism development (X) on community welfare (Y) has a positive sign and a value of 0.692, the influence of tourism development (X) on the economic impact (Z) with a positive sign and a value of 0.968, and the influence of the economic impact on welfare community (Y) with a positive sign and a value of 0.356. This study contributes to government policy for tourism development and the economic level in the Lake Toba area as a tourism priority in Indonesia from five world tourist destinations, namely: Lake Toba. | en_US |
