Analisis Pengembangan Potensi Wisata Sumber Daya Alam Wilayah Pesisir Berbasis Masyarakat di Pantai Talugawu Desa Banuagea Kabupaten Nias Utara

Abstract

Coast region constitute appointment room between continent and ocean. Coast region constitute unique region ecological because this region have natural resources potency which can be developed as tourism area. The coast region part that most productive is beach. One of the coast region part which is not developed as tourism area is Talugawu Beach at North Nias Regency. Therefore, need to do an analysis by looking at the existing conditions at the beach such as conditions of community social economy, conditions of coastal natural resources and the other conditions. Analysis which is used in this research is descriptive analysis, community participation analysis and policy analysis. Descriptive analysis is done by direct observation at the field, community participation analysis is done by direct interview to society around the coast, and policy analysis is done by SWOT analysis. Talugawu beach have an attractive natural beauty, so that the guest have an interested to come to the beach. From the results of questionnaire, the community around the Talugawu beach has a fairly high involvement in the development of Talugawu beach tourism potential. From the result of SWOT analysis, obtained that Talugawu beach so far is not developed as tourism area because lack of human resources or experts, lack of fund or cost from the government in the development of tourism potential at Talugawu beach, as well as inadequate infrastructure and facilities.