Abstract:
Tourism village of Pulau Belimbing is one potential area of Kampar River Basin (DAS Kampar).
Its location was close to the centre of Pekanbaru City and transportation route crossing Pekanbaru
to West Sumatera that makes it very affordable for the tourists. This research used descriptive
qualitative method with data collection techniques through observation, interview, and
documentation to reveal various potential attraction, accessibility, and amenity available in Pulau
Belimbing, and then, figured out the spatial pattern of its regional development. Research stages
included identification, implementation, connectivity, and destination positioning. This tourism
village has a various natural attractions in form of citrus plantations and typical guava namely
citra, river valleys, rice fields, and also cultural attractions such as balimau kasai, pacu tongkang,
traditional house of lontiok, traditional food, also typical Ocu theatrical tradition. The accessibility
of the area was very good, supported by homestay of lontiok house. This potential indicated that
Pulau Belimbing has different positioning products to the other tourist destinations in Kampar
regency. This positioning analysis further demonstrated that there were 3 types of spatial patterns
that could be built based on the existing potentials, namely basecamp, en route, and single
destination, which place this village as the center of arrival and breaking down of tourist
concentration. The connectivity of this area was combined with other destinations, including
Stanum, Bukit Naang, Sungai Hijau, Muara Takus Temple, Koto Mesjid Village, Lopek Bugi
Culinary Center, and Tanjung tourism village, and definetely show its different tourism products.
The flow of tourists in the area was spreadly around, so it was easier to break the tourist
concentration, and the distribution of villagers’ income from tourists activity/economic benefit
sharing can be distributed equally.
