Kontribusi Sektor Wisata Terhadap Kehidupan Sosial Ekonomi Masyarakat Desa Lumban Silintong Kecamatan Balige Kabupaten Toba Samosir

Abstract

Tourism is a very complex social phenomenon inseparable from the social aspects, psychological, technological and economic. Tourism views as a potential economic resource because it directly involves and touches the comunity, resulting distribution of incomes come to the population in the area tourism. This study uses a descriptive type of research because this study describes the subject or the object of research in the form of data that already exists and aims to describe the characteristics of the subject or the object in detail. The research was conducted in Lumban Silintong Village, Subdictrict Balige, District Toba Samosir. Results of research conducted and data analysis has been carried out that tourism sector give positively contribute to the socio-economic life of the comunity around atraction. Seen from the economic activity of society from tourism sector very helpful in social economic such as employment, income, health, education, and social relations. Tourism sector give opportunities for comunity to open a tourism business, so that earning can range between 1 to 2 million in a month. Earning from the economic activity of tourism sector make they are able to keep their daily needs, their children education, and keep their healthly.