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Abstract:
In line with the current trend that development policy is environmentally sound and sustainable, the concept of developing tourism needs to be addressed specifically by the Government of West Manggarai (Labuan Bajo) because it will have a positive impact on increasing the number of visits, increasing government revenues and the tourism industry as well as the welfare of local communities. The proof that there was an inauguration of the Komodo dragon as the New 7 Wonders of Nature in 2013 there were 277 species of animals which were a mixture of animals from Asia and Australia, here are also paradise for fish and coral reefs, there are at least 253 coral-forming coral species, 70 sponge species, and 1,000 species of fish, dugongs, sharks, 14 whales, dolphins and turtles. This biodiversity had a very positive positive impact on the government of West Manggarai through a very significant increase in the number of tourists in 2016 of 80,000 from the previous year: 2014: 56,452 people, 2015: 60,107. Increasing the number of visits gives hope that the community will prosper and an increase in regional income, the private sector and the community itself. But in reality the local community is still below the poverty line, this is because ownership of the tourism industry is outside the area of Mataram and Lombok while our community is only a complementary workforce: shopkeepers, housemaids, hotel servants and hotel servants, low knowledge and stakeholder information in managing and utilizing regional wealth as a leading sector of tourism as well as increasing uncontrolled degradation of natural resources. Seeing this gap when viewed from the epistemology of scientific truth Scientific Tourism can be done through several approaches, namely: (1) System approach (2) Institutional Approach. Based on the background above, the main problem can be formulated as follows: "How is the development of eco-friendly, economic and socio-cultural ecotourism of local communities in West Manggarai Regency? With the aim of the study as follows: 1) Identifying the potential of ecotourism in West Manggarai, 2) Analyzing the environmental, economic and socio-cultural impacts of local communities on the development of ecotourism in West Manggarai Regency. 3) Designing a model of environmental, economic and socio-cultural ecotourism development for local communities in West Manggarai Regency. The results of the study show that partially and simultaneously there are economic, socio-cultural and environmental influences on the development of ecotourism. It is desirable that the community members involved must have virtual capital that includes intellectual, social and credibility capital. The government in developing tourism needs to be harmonized with efforts to preserve the functions and carrying capacity of the environment.
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