A Tourism Village Development Model Based on Cultural Ecology on the Slopes of Mount Lawu, Indonesia

Sustainable development has emerged in response to the environmental damage caused by exploitative development, and this has led to the need for efforts to align development with environmental preservation. There are concerns that the rapid rise in tourism village development will destroy the ecological balance. Several models for tourism village development have emerged, in line with the capacity of human resources and local potential. This research aims to investigate a development model for mountainside tourism villages based on an ecological perspective. A qualitative research method is used with a phenomenological approach. The research location is the tourism villages on the slopes of Mount Lawu, Magetan Regency in East Java, Indonesia. The research results show that a tourism village development model based on cultural ecology, marked by the development of social networks and local cultural potential, has been proven to empower the local communities.