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E3S Web Conf.
Volume 125, 2019
The 4th International Conference on Energy, Environment, Epidemiology and Information System (ICENIS 2019)
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| Article Number | 09009 | |
| Number of page(s) | 7 | |
| Section | Culture and Environment Development in Coastal Community | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/201912509009 | |
| Published online | 28 October 2019 | |
Ecocultural Tourism in Tegal Regency
Department of English, Faculty of Humanities, Diponegoro University, Semarang - Indonesia
* Corresponding author: siswoharsono@live.undip.ac.id
Ecocultural tourism is a hybrid of ecotourism and cultural tourism. This research deals with ecocultural tourism in Tegal Regency, Central Java, Indonesia. The purpose of this research is to investigate the hybridity of ecotourism and cultural tourism in the Tegal Regency. This research uses ecocultural theory and ecocultural tourism theory. The methods applied in this research are library research and fieldwork. Library research is applied to collect informative data about ecocultural tourism. The fieldwork is applied to collect data by interviewing the informants of tourism in Tegal Regency. By applying the theory and the methods, it is found that the hybridity of ecotourism and cultural tourism becomes the strategy to develop ecocultural tourism in Tegal Regency. On the one hand, ecocultural events relate to natural conservations; on the other hand, the events related to cultural conservations. The ecocultural tourism events become the prime tourist attractions that are able to attract local, domestic, and foreign tourists.
Key words: ecotourism / cultural tourism / ecocultural tourism / ecocultural conservation
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