Increase Economic Valuation of Marine Ecotourism Spots In Small Islands

2nd International Conference on Applied Marine Science and Fisheries Technology 2017

地球科学;农业科学

Rahakbauw, Siska D.^1 ; Teniwut, Wellem A.^1 ; Renjaan, Meiskyana R.^1 ; Hungan, Marselus^1

Fisheries Agribusiness Study Program, Tual State Fisheries Polytechnic, Langgur

97611, Indonesia^1

关键词: Central government;    Economic valuation;    Growth and development;    Marine ecotourism;    Nature-based tourism;    Perceived quality;    Structural equation modeling;    Willingness to pay;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/89/1/012037/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/89/1/012037

学科分类：农业科学（综合）

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Ecotourism is one of the fast-growing sectors especially in the developing country as a source of revenue. To get a sustainable development of ecotourism, it needs broad and comprehensive effort from central government and local government, perfect example in that regards in Indonesia is Bali and Lombok. For another area in Indonesia like Kei Islands which located in two administrative governments have a major problem to build a sustainable nature-based tourism because of the location of this area to the major cities in the country makes the travel cost is high. This situation makes the role of local community as the backbone of the growth and development of nature-based tourism is critical. By using structural equation modeling (SEM), we constructed a model to enhance local community perception on economic valuation of ecotourism spots in the area. Results showed that perceived quality as the mediation driven by the intensity of appearance on national television and the internet could increase community attachment to increase willingness to pay from the local community on ecotourism in Kei islands. Also, the result also indicated that WTP value for the local community on ecotourism in Kei Islands was $10.81 per trip, with average trip per month was 1 to 4 times.