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THE APPLICATION OF THE CONCEPT OF ECO GREEN- TOURISM IN DEVELOPING THE TOURIST VILLAGE THROUGH THE LOW IMPACT DEVELOPMENT


Oleh :
Wiwik Setyaningsih - 195709011987032001 - Fak. Teknik

The concept of green eco-tourism is a concept of regional development for
environmentally sustainable tourism activities. Tourism activities have a significant
effect on the development and improvement of the economic, social, cultural sectors
and the quality of the surrounding environment which subsequently causes the
global issue of World Tourism Organization (WTO) to emerge. It is then relevant to
apply the concept of eco-green tourism in developing the strategic areas intended
for tourism in line with the program of the government of Surakarta city which aims
at developing the city within the concept of eco-culture city.
Some tourist villages (kampung wisata) with local wisdom potentials as the
historical areas in Surakarta city are still not handled optimally. This trend can be
seen in some of areas which have begun to lose their original characteristics and
have even changed function. This phenomenon will slowly and certainly erode the
local wisdoms of the historical villages which will eventually cause the unique
characteristics as the local potentials of the city to disappear.  Therefore, one of the
right and integrated actions to handle such a problem is the research model of
development of the tourist villages through LID (Low Impact Development) by
having the concept of eco-green tourism.
The objective of this research is to formulate the model of development of the tourist
villages through LID (Low Impact Development) in bringing eco-green tourism into
reality. This formulation is based on descriptive explorative method. This research
was conducted in the historical area of Kauman tourist village which still has the
authenticity of potentials of the value of characteristics of high local wisdoms which
are still in existence and development.
The results of this research are the model formulation for policy in developing
Kauman tourist village. Such a policy model is expected to be able to become the
pilot project of the development of the tourist villages not only in Surakarta city but
also in other tourist cities in Indonesia in general through the implementation of
eco-green tourism on the basis of the concept of green architecture which will not only conserve the tourism, cultural, and environmental assets, but also empower the
prevailing local wisdoms. 

Keywords: eco-green tourism, tourist village, and low impact development