Tourism Suitability, and Carrying Capacity : Prospect Ecotourism (Case Study in Marina Beach Semarang)

Abstract

Marina beach in the city of Semarang is one of the interesting marine attractions, interesting because it is only one of the tourist destinations in the middle of the city. This results in tourists only knowing the tourist recreation. This study aims to combine current conditions where collaboration between Tourism suitability and Carrying capacity of the region as an evaluation and certainly become a prospect towards the future of marine tourism. The results show that the location of the marina beach is not appropriate (TS) with a value of 1.82 in terms of land suitability for the beach recreation category and the carrying capacity of the area for beach recreation is still likely to be improved, but for sports tourism and fishing tourism has been saturated or dense. New innovations are needed in making beach tourism locations for the latest marine tourism recreation in locations in the city of Semarang and are really still naturally accompanied by sound strategies and policies

Keywords

• tourism suitability
• carrying capacity
• ecotourism
• marina beach