ECO-CULTURAL TOURISM BASED ON LOCAL WISDOM: A CASE STUDY IN TUTUP NGISOR, MAGELANG REGENCY

Abstract

The government is intensively promoting cultural tourism. However, many people ignore the natural damage factor. However, it is different from Tutup Ngisor village. Even though the development is massively done in Tutup Ngisor. It makes this village is suitable as an eco-cultural tourism destination. This paper aims to inform that eco-cultural tourism can be a medium to preserve culture and care for the environment. This paper uses eco-cultural theory. Eco-cultural tourism is tourism based on the potential of natural and cultural wealth. Besides that, eco-cultural tourism combines environmentally friendly tourism. This paper uses the ethnographic method. In this study, the ethnographic method was used so that researchers could get the first experience of the natives of Tutup Ngisor village. As a village with a strong culture, Tutup Ngisor village is very suitable as an eco-cultural tourism destination. This is supported by the dwellers that still uphold Javanese culture. However, village elders refused to make Tutup Ngisor village a tourist village. Elder Tutup Ngisor agrees if the cultural tourism carried out is educational-based cultural tourism. Because if the village turns into a tourist village, they have to serve the guests. They do not want the existing culture to change due to commercialization. Even though Tutup Ngisor can be an eco-cultural tourism village, they refuse it because the culture will be changed.