Potential Tourism Area Using Geographic Information System Based On Visual, Natural, and Cultural Qualities In Parangtritis Coastal Area, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

摘要

The objective of this study is studying on potential tourism area in coastal area of Parangtritis based on its visual, natural, and cultural quality assessment. Those three aspects of quality are used as the basic consideration for site assessment. Scenic Beauty Estimation (SBE)method and visual character variables assessment are used in assessing the visual quality of the study area. The technique of potential zones mapping applied by Gunn (1994)combined with cartographic regionalization (Smith, 1989)are used in assessing both natural and cultural quality of the area. GIS technology is used in this study, especially to perform spatial analysis in integrating those three resources assessments to obtain a composite result considered as potential tourism area. In general, Parangtritis is dominated with high to medium quality of potential area for tourism, which includes beach, sand dunes, woodlands, and a big part of agriculture area. There are also some areas with very high quality that are found especially around Cepuri Parangkusumo and in some part of agricultural area. The rest of the area is covered with low to very low quality of tourism potency, which includes settlement area and part of scrubland area.