Legal Policy of Implementation Green Economy in the Tourism Sector to Realize Sustainable Tourism and Environment

Abstract

Tourism is an alternative livelihood for people to earn income by utilizing the natural wealth around them. Natural ecosystems need to be conserved so that they remain balanced and can be utilized. These problems are what prompted the emergence of the idea of a green economy. The idea of a green economy aims to encourage the economic development of tourism while still preserving the environmental ecosystem. Therefore, the focus of the problem in this article is to examine the policy direction of green economy ideas in the regulation of tourism in Indonesia. The purpose of this study is to analyze the implementation of the idea of a green economy in the regulation of the tourism sector in Indonesia. Normative research methods are used with statutory and conceptual approaches to analyzing the regulations of the tourism sector in Indonesia. This research resulted in a novelty of draft regulations in the tourism sector that accommodate the idea of a green economy to become a reference for tourism actors to maintain environmental sustainability to realize sustainable tourism and update previous regulations that have not accommodated the idea of a green economy.