The Role of Kompepar Pangandaran In Developing Pangandaran Becomes National Tourism Destination

Abstract

Pangandaran is a Regency (Kabupaten) in West Java province. It has already long been known as a tourist destination due to numbers of tourist destinations existed in Pangandaran. However, the abundance of tourist destinations choices does not necessarily make Pangandaran crowded by tourists every day. A distant location and inadequate infrastructure become two of the main factors of why visitors only visit Pangandaran for certain times. Kompepar (shorten word of Kelompok Penggerak Pariwisata or tourism drivers group) of Pangandaran was one of the tourism drivers that has a great role to the advancement of tourism in Pangandaran. Kompepar’s duty is to review and oversees a regional tourism potential with the assessment starts from the formation of their walk to tourism. Pangandaran has many natural potentials that can be developed. In addition to having the potential of Pangandaran Beach, there are also other potentials, such as mountains and rivers. This research using descriptive method with data capture techniques of in-depth interviews and observations. The selected resource is a member of Kompepar who was directly involved in the activities of the development of national tourism destinations in Pangandaran. One of the barriers to the development of tourism in Pangandaran is the large number areas of tourist destinations which make them quite hard to be well-preserved. However, Kompepar has a lot of strategies in developing the natural potentials of Pangandaran to become an attractive tourist destination.