An Analysis of Willingness to Pay on Visitors of Mangrove Forest at Sicanang - Belawan Ecotourism

Abstract

The aims of this research are to calculate and analyze influence of travel cost, income, distance, education, age and facilities to the number of tourist visit at Sicanang Belawan Mangrove Forest Ecotourism. The research samples conducted using by the random sampling method was choosing in a random from mangrove forest visitors. This study applied Travel Cost Method (TCM) for measuring economic valuation of mangrove forest at Sicanang, Belawan. The result showed that the three independent variables i.e. income, travel cost and distance had an effect the number of tourist visits. The total economic value of mangrove forest beach is Rp. 2,913,450,00 and willingness to pay is Rp 30.000/person,