Puji Hardati, FIS Geografi and R. Rijanta, - and Su Ritohardoyo, - (2017) Natural Tourism Potential and Rural Diversification Based Tourism in Semarang District Central Java Province Indonesia. International Journal of Applied Business and Economic Research, 15 (7). ISSN 0972-7302

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Abstract

Tourism is one of the leading foreign exchange development, create jobs and contribute to it. This study aims to identify the potential of nature tourism and tourism-based rural diversification. This research was conducted in several villages in the district of Semarang. The variables of this study is the potential of nature tourism, human resources and rural jobs. The data used are secondary data from relevant government offices and agencies, Education Office Culture Sports and Tourism, the Central Boreau of Statistics, and the National Development Planning and Local. Data analysis used to descriptive and presented in tabular form. The results showed that at the Semarang District has three types of tourism, namely the natural, cultural, and tourist attraction artificial. The number of the most dominant cultural attractions, namely 55 percent, then 30 percent of natural attractions and sights artificial 15 percent. natural attractions are the mountains and water. Human resources have a central function to promote the development of tourism. In some villages with nature, the proportion of working age population is more than 60 percent, but the human resources have of low quality. Educated population graduated from college less than 5 percent, while nearly 25 percent of high school education. The livelihoods of the majority population in agriculture, jobs non-agricultural sector is relatively small. In some villages the rural-based tourism diversification, with diversification index ranged from 1.73 to 4.62.

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