Perceptions of Foreign Tourists Toward Local Wisdom and Natural Resources for Sustainability of Mount Ijen Banyuwangi Indonesia

Abstract

Tourism is something that can be offered to tourists to visit a tourist destination. The experience of tourists who are satisfied with the variables of natural products and local services, this study uses a quantitative approach and is a fundamental research tested on the Ijen Banyuwangi mountain tourist attraction in Indonesia which has been successfully designated as part of the UNESCO Global Geopark (UGG), namely as one of the world heritage tourist park areas, with an unknown population using the Lemeshow formula sample calculation obtained a total of 103 respondents, all of whom are foreign tourists with data processing analysis using SEM PLS. The research objective is to test and analyze the influence of environmental and non-environmental factors, namely perceived environmental value, friendly destination performance and sustainability tourism development on foreign tourist satisfaction. The results prove that Perceived environmental value has a significant effect on sustainability tourism development with a t-Statistic value (5.319) greater than the t-Tabell value (1.96) and p-value <0.05. The same effect, namely friendly destination performance, has a significant effect on sustainability tourism development. Tourists really like the natural landscape and the green crater area of Mount Ijen because it has the highest acidity level in the world, this supports the utility theory, namely when tourists feel the benefits of satisfaction both in terms of the natural environment and from the non-environmental side, namely the hospitality of local people who work as sulfur mining laborers who want to greet tourists in the midst of their work activities and also sustainability tourism development has an insignificant effect on tourist satisfaction with a t-Statistic value (0.890) smaller than the t-Tabell value (1.96) and p-value> 0.05. That the perceived value of the environment is still low so that it has not been able to provide a sense of satisfaction in the hearts of foreign tourists, this falsifies the utility theory, it can be seen from the still poorly maintained condition of the environmental ecosystem and cultural heritage around the tourist attraction that there are no supporting waste management facilities so that the cleanliness factor of the natural environment is still not well maintained, besides that the buildings for visitors' rest posts are less well maintained and look using perceived not to support the beauty of the natural environment in the tourist area so that sustainable tourism development still has not touched and felt by tourists who come to visit.