| dc.description.abstract | The tourism potential of East Kalimantan is located in the Berau district, namely Derawan Island that offers charming marine
tourism destinations and underwater parks that interest nationaland foreign tourists. The problem's urgency was collected from
the field analysis results by observing, listening and interviewingall tourism actors on Derawan Island. From the results of
identifying urgency or problems that occur as phenomena onDerawan Island, it will be the primary instrument in the GAP
analysis, which becomes one of the methods to identify the rightsolution in creating recommendations for solving problems that
occur on Derawan Island. The initial step considered in the
development of ecotourism on Derawan Island is to determine a
clear idea about the object that will be planned as an ecotourism
object and strategies are used to develop it, as well as to conduct
a feasibility study related to the weaknesses and strengths of the
resources available in the area. To be used as the basis for
preparing project plans, infrastructure development, operation of
Pokdarwis (tourism awareness groups) as local tourism
communities, determination of market (marketing) strategies, and
product development as activities to increase tourism business
capacity. | en_US |
