VALUASI EKONOMI WISATA PANTAI HUTAN MANGROVE DI TUBAN, JAWA TIMUR
Abstract
The aims of this research are to calculate and analyze influence of travel
cost, income, distance, education, age and facilities to the number of tourist visit
at mangrove forest beach. The research samples conducted using by the random
sampling method was choosing in a random from mangrove forest beach visitors.
This study applied Travel Cost Method (TCM) for measuring economic valuation
of mangrove forest beach at Tuban, East Java. The result showed that the three
independent variables i.e. income, travel cost and distance had an effect the
number of tourist visits. The total economic value of mangrove forest beach is Rp.
106,361,960,560.00.