The stage of tourism object development in Bantul Regency, Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Abstract

Bantul Regency has many tourism objects potentials such as nature tourism and cultural tourism. The objective of research was the correlation between the stage of tourism object development and type of attractions, landform. The method used are the spatial and statistical analysis (chi-square). Research variables include the number of visitors, primary facilities, secondary facilities, conditional facilities, accessibility, commercialization, and promotion. The results showed the stage of tourism object development in Bantul Regency included on involvement stage, development stage, and consolidation stage. Result of statistical analysis showed; (1) the correlation between the stage of tourism object development and type of attraction was not significant at the significance level (α) = 0.05; (2) the correlation between landform and the stage of tourism object development was not significant at the significance level (α) = 0.05, which means that the stage of tourism object development in Bantul Regency are not always on the right type of attraction and landform.