Impact of Tourism case of Pulau Tidung is my short opinion from a small research during my holiday to this Tidung beauty island. Hoping local government and community understanding a mass tourism like Tidung create positive and negative impact of the tourism booming.

1. IMPACT OF TOURISM
CASE OF PULAU TIDUNG, JAKARTA
By Widodo Heru Santoso

2. Pulau Tidung Tourism a quo Vadis

3. No Uraian Wisman (Orang) Wisnus (Orang) Jumlah Persentase
-1 -2 -3 -4 -5
1 Pulau Ayer 0 17.461 17.461
2 Pulau Bidadari 0 31.673 31.673
3 Pulau Kotok Tengah 1.003 1.255 2.258
4 Pulau Sepa 844 1.682 2.526
5 Pulau Putri 1.734 1.04 2.774
6 Pulau Untung Jawa 0 0 0
7 Pulau Pramuka 3.494 119.626 123.12
8 Pulau Tidung 3.576 370.311 373.887 39%
9 Pulau Harapan 1.46 64.836 66.296
10 Pulau Kelapa 0 9.483 9.483
11 Pulau Pari/Lancang 3.41 215.62 219.03
12 Pulau Macan 0 116 116
964.508 146%
8.422 651.237 659.659 118%
6.692 552.306 558.998 242%
4.786 226.234 231.02
2012
2011
2010
Sumber : Sudin Pariwisata dan Kebudayaan Kab. Adm. Kepulauan Seribu
Jumlah Wisatawan ke Pulau Seribu 2013
http://kepulauanseribukab.bps.go.id/index.php?hal=tabel&id=18

5. “mass tourism” is associated with traditional “sea, sun, sand” and winter ski tourism, deriving a
number of negatives upon tourist destinations, due to the high volume of tourists flows.
(Gonzalez Tiradoz, 2011),
Mass tourism is defined as the transport of large numbers of people in a short space of time to
places of leisure interest and it started as a result of Improvements in infrastructure and when a
greater number of people started to enjoy the benefit of their leisure time. (WTO, 2009)

6. Impact of Tourism in Pulau Tidung

7. ECONOMIC IMPACTS

8. +
IMPACTS
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IMPACTS
1. Contributes to income of local
and better standard of living
and growth of local economy.
2. Generate employment,
business opportunities and
creativities.
3. Improves investment
(stimulates), development and
public utilities infrastructures.
4. Increases tax and local
government revenues.
1. Increases local prices of goods
and services, higher cost of living
a bit higher (inflationary
pressure).
2. Urbanization and investor leakage
and dependency on tourism incl.
underground economy.
3. High infrastructure maintenance
(water, power, fuel, medical, etc.
4. Risk of seasonal jobs and low paid
jobs include balance of wealth
risk.

9. ENVIRONTMENTAL IMPACTS

10. +
IMPACTS
-
IMPACTS
1. Better understanding of
environment and protect
nature thru ecotourism.
2. Preservation of historic and
nature sites.
3. Teaching and participating in
nature preserve programs.
4. Promoting the nature
conservation program.
1. Pollution (air, water, noise, solid waste
and visual) and degradation of natural
landscape including destruction of
flora and fauna (marine habitat,
corals, mangrove, etc.)
2. Contribute water and electricity
shortages during overcrowd and
congestion as well as traffic.
3. Unsightly buildings and non-standard
homestay due to un-control and
manage the regulation of the
development including loss waste
management control.
4. Tourists are likely to drop litter create
the island full of trash.

11. SOCIAL AND CULTURE IMPACTS

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IMPACTS
-
IMPACTS
1. Improves quality of life with
modern living standard and
revitalization of poor
community.
2. Positive changes in customs,
values, education and
understand service industry.
3. Promotes and preserve local
cultural and understanding
different culture
4. Satisfaction of psychological
needs, proud of their island.
1. Create an excessive drinking, alcoholism,
gambling, underage drinking, crimes,
drugs, prostitution and smuggling.
2. Language and cultural effects in
duplicating the tourist characteristics and
lifestyle changes, social structure
grouping of similar preference
(exclusivity), racial or social tension-
conflicts include change of favorable to
young generation.
3. Displacement for tourism development
priority and exclusion of locals from
natural resources, and create social
calamities.
4. Servile attitude making tourist is the king
and work for money (financial dislocation
), create a feeling of inferiority and stress
tension to local people and the tourist.

13. Pulau Tidung a Tourism in Progress

14. MITIGATION OF NEGATIVE IMPACTS

15. MITIGATION OF NEGATIVE IMPACTS
1. Increased community empowerment thru active communication and
tourism community organization involving all stakeholders with
sustainability goals
2. Education and understand tourism positive and negative impact on
economic domino effect and increase local creativity and opportunity.
3. Manage Tidung’s carrying capacity to minimize and avoid the damage of
the nature and marine resources.
4. Create continuous research and assessment of tourism impact both local
inhabitant and environmental such as EIA (environmental impact
assessment), LAC (limit of acceptance change), pseudo-event,
demonstration effect or Irridex (doxey’s irritation index).

16. Pulau Tidung Tourism a Success

17. Critics and comments welcome.. Mail me: widodo.heru@gmail.com
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