Partisipasi Masyarakat dalam Pengembangan Pariwisata Berkelanjutan di Kecamatan Simanindo Kabupaten Samosir

Abstract

Simanindo is one of the sub-districts in Samosir regency which is a developing tourist area located on the shores of Lake Toba. Community participation can support aspects of sustainable tourism in order to develop, sustainable tourism is a form of tourism that improves socio-economic, environmental, cultural and governance aspects. With community participation, Simanindo can develop its tourism sector, this makes community participation in sustainable tourism development in the Simanindo area significant. The purpose of this study is to find out what participation the community does in developing sustainable tourism in Simanindo. The method used in this study is a descriptive research method with a mixed method, which is a combination of quantitative and qualitative research. The data collection method is in the form of 100 questionnaires distributed to local communities in four tourist attraction locations in Simanindo and consisting of 25 questionnaires per one tourist attraction, interviews with eight resource persons who have lived in the research location for more than five years each one tourist attraction consisting of two resource persons whose work is related to tourism and observation. The forms of community participation, namely participating in decision making, participating in providing goods or services, participating in infrastructure and facility development, participating in environmental convergence and participating in the form of planning Pokdarwis (Tourism Awareness Group) will be associated with socioeconomic aspects, environmental aspects, cultural aspects and governance aspects of sustainable tourism. The results conclude the opinion of local communities on community participation in sustainable tourism development in Simanindo. The results of this study concluded that the most dominating form of community participation is providing goods and services and the most dominating aspect in sustainable tourism is the cultural aspects in Simanindo sub-district, Samosir regency.