Monitoring of the tourism village of the mount merapi slope area through the global sustainable tourism council (gstc) snapshoot assessment system

Abstract

The Indonesian government through the Ministry of Tourism has a big agenda related to the development of sustainable tourism destinations, namely Indonesia must be a benchmarking of sustainable tourism in Southeast Asia. The program began in 2015 with the signing of a memorandum of understanding with 20 Districts / Cities as a form of local government commitment to encourage sustainable tourism development. This study is to find out how the monitoring system is carried out in tourism ecosystems, consists of: destinations, local governments and local universities running and in accordance with predetermine Ed standards. The monitoring system in this study focused more on the standards determined by the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC), namely on the management standards of tourism destinations and environmental management. A monitoring system focused on how tourism destinations attempt to reduce disaster risk. The study location took samples in the southern slopes of Merapi, namely in the Turi sub-district, which is the area that has the most tourist villages among the other sub-districts in Sleman Regency. This study method was carried out through snapshoot assessment and observation through sustainable tourism development indicators consisting of 4 standards, 42 criteria and 102 indicators. Assessment is based on the results of self-assessment. Assessment is given for each element in each standard, where each standard will be given a Likert scale value from 1-7. The criteria used are standard environmental management criteria that are in accordance with the provisions of the determined GSTC, which includes further monitoring with standard D, namely maximizing the benefits for the environment and minimizing negative impacts which consist of: D1 Environmental Risk, D2 Sensitive Environmental Protection, D4 Greenhouse Gas Emission, D11 Light and Sound Pollution, D12 Environmentally Friendly Transportation. Research results indicate that tourism destinations already have standards in destination management and environmental management, but have not carried out overall practices within the framework of sustainable tourism development, especially in standard D.