Perencanaan Ekowisata Kampung Blekok Berbasis Community Based Tourism (CBT)

Abstract
The development of tourism villages now has become an alternative to local economic and creative industries development that has been implemented in various regions. One of the villages that was developed as a tourism village is Blekok Village at Klatakan Village, Situbondo Regency, which has the potential in the form of mangroves and mangroves which are quite large, reaching 5 hectares. In addition, the presence of the blekok bird that occupies the mangrove forest is enough to make this area more exotic. This Blekok village tourism object is located on the edge of the Surabaya-Banyuwangi Pantura route not far from the 1000 km Anyer Panarukan monument. The main road to this area is a national road with asphalt pavement. In developing Blekok village tourism, it is necessary to study the tourism system which consists of various aspects, so this study beeing recomendation to explore the potential for developing Kampung Blekok as a natural tourism attraction in rural areas (rural tourism) so that it can provide recommendations for the development of Kampung Blekok in the future. The results showed that in general the potential of this Blekok tourist village is quite a lot. Some of the existing problems include the inadequate quality of human resources, facilities and infrastructure, promotion. This can be overcome with the active participation of various parties, especially the tourism village community and local culture.

Keywords: Blekok Village, Tourism, Ecotourism