Physical and Facilities Factors Influencing Tourist Distribution in Bantul Regency, Special Region of Yogyakarta

¹ Department of Geography, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Indonesia
¹ Department of Geography, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Indonesia

^* Corresponding author’s email: mhdsusilowati@gmail.com
email: akhmadshidiq@gmail.com

Abstract

Bantul Regency is one of favorite of tourism in Special Region of Yogyakarta. Bantul’s landscape are very different, more than half area is below 50 m and around 70 percent area consist agricultural lanscapes. Bantul Regency have many primary, secondary and conditional facilities, along accessibility. Variety of facilities cause differences number tourist. The objective of reseach was to analyze physical and facilities factors influencing tourist distribution. The method used are spatial and statistical analysis (chi-square). Based on spatial analysis shows: (1) physical factors are different, indicating flat on souther and plain on western; (2) the most facilities are placed at southern, especially Parangtritis Beach; (a) primary facilities covering most natural attractions in southern coastal areas and cultures in westhern with plain terrain; (b) the highest of secondary and conditional facilities are located at Parangtritis Beach;(d) highest accessibility is at Parangtritis Beach; (3) most tourist are placed at southern, especially Parangtritis Beach. Based on statistical analysis shows: (1) the influence of physical factors on distribution of number tourists is not significant at the significance level (α) = 0.05; (2) Correlation between number tourist and facilities is significant and indicate the value of correlation is 0.959.