Potensi Lansekap Untuk Pengembangan Ekowisata Di Hutan Lindung Register 25 Pematang Tanggang Kabupaten Tanggamus

Abstract

Register 25 is the forest area have located in the Tanggamus district with an area of 3,380 hectares and have landscape potentials such a natural landscape, waterfalls, biodiversity of flora and fauna that can be developed as an ecotourism location. Ecotourism is a tourism conception from environmental by the activities which related to the nature. This research have a purposed to take inventory and analysis landscape potentionn in Register 25 for ecotourism development. The method used on this research are observation, interview and documentation. The data have taken on December 2015 by wrote the location of the potential tourism used the GPS, the document retrieval of landscape objects which are seen as interest object used to be a trial to people who be the visitors of Pahawang Island, documentation and interview. The results were analized by descriptively qualitative and served as map of the tourist track. From this research have known that register 25, Pematang Tanggang the tourism potential there are view of Teluk Kiluan, Batu Suluh beach,Tanggang Mountain, and some waterfall that have the uniquely and beauty and biodiversity of flora and fauna that can be found along in the tourist track. The valuation of tourist about that tourism objects are 85,55%  is good, 13,89% is average, and  0,56% is bad. Based on that value the tourism objects there are in forest area Register 25 Pematang Tanggang, Tanggamus District included to potentially for the develop e a ecotourism.

Keywords: Ecotourism, Landscape, Potential, Register 25