Zen RS in his essay said that the world of tourism restores the colonial perspective, Mooi Indie or the beauty and elegance of the homeland. This view then makes the tourist attractions are displayed only beautiful, as if the tourist spot is free without problems.
At this point I want to realize that there is always an impact in everything. What looks beautiful is not always beautiful. Unfortunately during this many who only care about the beauty, things that are not beautiful is not preached, covered or even forgotten.
Tourism is now a euphoria, a kind of commodity, in droves want to taste honey tourism. When mineral commodities are troubling all the issues that arise, tourism seems to be a messiah of the Indonesian economy in the future and he said in the future is one of the backbone of the nation's economy.
Indeed Indonesia is currently intensively promoting tourism, not wrong, but if without good planning, a tourist place will not be a paradise. Instead of going sustainable, which happens just the opposite, the fast tourist spots and then quickly withered.
The fact that happens is every new tourist spots popping up, people trying to manage, all hoping to have a claim. Though that's not what it wants, tourism should not belong to whom, but for whom. Then the pattern of management should be how this tourism is useful for everything.
Like when heading to Gunung Kidul? Due to the booming effects of tourism nowadays, so many tourist attractions have sprung up and each - each as having a claim for a tourist spot. Visits of tourists come flooding every day, tourist attraction was open every day for visitors.
Can imagine how a tour visited every day continuously by visitors without stopping. If the natural attractions, the ecosystem will certainly change, the environment will obviously change.
Yes, economically the growth of tourism will raise the local economy, people's standard of living increases. But this growth should also think about how to maintain its natural condition? How is the preparation done? Is it only the economic side that will be of concern? Or people already aware of the tourism that will be sustain until the future.
Tourism mitigation is important, how to anticipate the impact of visitors who come every day. Analysis of the environmental impact if tourists come what it looks like, how many visitors can be accommodated, how waste management is generated, how the carrying capacity of the environment when the visitors more and more?
This is all the things that should be considered in the management of tourism, not just the economic effects alone.
Tourist attractions actually take time to rest, need a holiday to recuperate, both natural and artificial tourism. Nature needs to restore itself, restore the damaged ecosystem, invite back its original inhabitants to come. If it is an artificial tour, then it takes time to check its structure, conduct checks for its infrastructure feasibility and or use the time to renovate the sights.
Not only natural attractions, cultural attractions are also vulnerable to change. Imagine the eroded customs of a new culture invading every day. In his article in National Geographic Indonesia, Yunety Tarigan flicked how the increasingly massive tourists visiting Baduy caused changes in Baduy customs.
Things like this should be a concern.
In some countries, even tourist spots can be closed for months until it feels the sights are ready again visited by tourists. Everything is returned to one thing, for the convenience and satisfaction of visitors.
Unfortunately many do not care about this, close a few days means the potential loss of thousands of rupiah or so many million. On behalf of the economy, a place like a never-ending machine crew, digeber continuously every day.
Will tourism honey survive if its management is like this? Will tourism management claims never learn from this?
The government should be able to take on the role of regulator. Establish regulations for the arrangement of tourist sites, make rules on the management of the region in the form of Spatial and Regional Plans. In some ways, the hands of the government have done well. For example the regulation of several national parks closes the doors for visits, giving nature a chance to restore itself.
It is time for tourism management to move away from mere economic things and turn to responsible tourism. Nature is not a display exhibit that can be exploited continuously. The building is also not a spectacle that becomes a daily display, there is maintenance, there is a time lag check condition.
Maybe it's time all the tourism people began to realize, that even the sights need a rest and let the resort to rest for some time, for the sustainability in the future.
Or I really should enjoy the beauty alone without the need to spread to others.
