IDENTIFICATION OF KUTA BEACH’S TOURISM CARRYING CAPACITY STATUS BASED ON PHYSICAL CAPACITY, ENVIRONMENTAL CAPACITY, ECONOMIC CAPACITY, PERCEPTUAL CAPACITY

• Main Author: Firsalina Surya, Tiara
• Format: Theses
• Language: Indonesia
• Subjects: Perencanaan wilayah
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/39285
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

Indonesia in 2017 through the slogan “Wonderful Indonesia” were able to attract international Tourists visit as many as 14 million Tourists, and also moving 277 million trips domestic Tourists and produce national funds of 200 trillion rupiah which made tourism as the second largest sector of the national foreign exchange earner. The largest total tourist arrivals to Indonesia by the entrance in 2017, obtained from international Tourists visit to Bali, through Ngurah Rai International Airport as much as 5,374,756 Tourists. The most visited destination in Bali is to Kuta Beach with the average number of tourists visited around 17,000 per day. This study aims to measure, calculate and identify the status of tourism carrying capacity in Kuta Beach based on four indicators: physical capacity, environmental capacity, economic capacity and perceptual capacity and so that destination able to optimized the tourists’ needs. The method used is combination of qualitative and quantitative analysis with the data collection method based on the results of a literature review, interviews, direct observation and questionnaires. Questionnaires were distributed to 30 international tourists, 50 Domestic tourists and 50 Local Communities using convinience sampling method. The results of the calculation, Kuta Beach’s tourism carrying capacity status based on physical capacity showed the number of tourists visit to Kuta Beach per day has exceeded with the total exceeded number of 11.010 tourists per day. While other indicators with the assessment of the percentage of 0% - 19%, which means of very low yield, 20% - 49% of the classification of low yields, 50% - 70% of the high classification, and> 70% is the highest classification assessment showed that indicators that have the highest value is the economic capacity by 75%. While environmental capacity indicators showed the results under ideal capacity 0%, and perceptual capacity as much as 16%.