PENGARUH EKOWISATA TERHADAP PENDAPATAN MASYARAKAT SEKITAR GOA LOWO DESA TEGALREJO KECAMATAN KELUMPANG HILIR KABUPATEN KOTABARU

Abstract

Ecotourism can provide economic value for community and magnitude of economic impact that can be felt by community depends on success and fluency in optimizing the tourist attractions themselves. The purpose of study was to compare income of community before the Goa Lowo Ecotourism and after the Goa Lowo Ecotourism. The method of taking research samples using purposive sampling technique with a sample determined based on certain considerations with a total sample of 73 respondents. Data analysis used a statistical approach with paired T-parametric test. The results of this study can be seen that community's income before existence of ecotourism has an influence with after the existence of ecotourism after the Paired T-Sample parametric test is carried out where a fairly large influence is felt by community because of addition of income since the development of Goa Lowo Ecotourism.