VISITORS’ MANAGEMENT OF MANGROVE TOURISM DESA TELUK PAMBANG

Abstract

Abstrac This research is aimed to find out visitors’ responses about visitors’ management in mangrove tourism. Mangrove is one of tropicalforest ecosystem. It has unique characteristics, and very important in coastal area. Writer use qualitative descriptive method. This method describes the whole concept and describes the events. The concept of this research is about using visitors management technique (Worboys, 2001). Likert scale is used to ease the classification of visitors’ responses. For data analiysis, writer use quantitative descriptive. The response for this research is not clear, and clear, whit visitors’ management technique whice is done by management crew of mangrove tourism Desa Teluk Pambang Kecamatan Bantan Kabupaten Bengkalis. Visitorst management is dote to improve fit felling for all of the visitors. The existing Visitors’ management is focus on facility building for ecology tourism and ecosystem resource protection in mangrove forest area.