Berkala Perikanan Terubuk
Vol 49, No 2 (2021): Juli 2021

ECONOMIC VALUATION OF MANGROVE ECOTOURISM IN BELAWAN SICANANG

Fines Indah Sari (Unknown)
Lamun Bathara (Unknown)
Trisla Warningsih (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
25 Jul 2021

Abstract

Belawan Sicanang Village is a sub-district that still has a mangrove forest ecosystem in the city of Medanwith a mangrove area of about 470 ha is divided into the fisheries an area 466 ha and ecotourism sectorswith an area of 4 ha. This research was conducted in Belawan Sicanang Village, Medan Belawan District,North Sumatra, Indonesian in 05 January – 05 February 2021. This study aims to measure the amount ofeconomic value obtained by Mangrove Ecotourism in Belawan Sicanang Village seen from consmersurplus with individual travel cost. Method respondents were determined using accidental samplingmethod with a total of 40 respondents. The result of the study concluded that in calculating the economicvalue of Belawan Sicanang Mangrove Ecotourism using the travel cost method with a consumer surplusvalue (CS), it was obtained IDR 412,169 per year and the economic value seen from the travel costmethod was IDR 1,648,159,472 per year.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

JT

Publisher

Subject

Environmental Science

Description

Berkala Perikanan Terubuk interested in publishing basic, applied and advanced research in the following broad fields but not limited to Fish Biology, Aquaculture, Fisheries Management, Aquaculture, Water Quality, Marine Biology, Marine Pollution, Socio-economic of Fishermen, Aquatic pollution, ...