GEOTOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN MINING AND SOURROUNDING AREA OF PT. NEWMONT NUSA TENGGARA WEST NUSA TENGGARA PROVINCE

PROCEEDINGS PIT IAGI RIAU 2006
The 35th IAGI Annual Convention and Exhibition
Pekanbaru - Riau, 21-22 November 2006

GEOTOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN MINING AND SOURROUNDING AREA OF
PT. NEWMONT NUSA TENGGARA WEST NUSA TENGGARA PROVINCE

¹Heryadi Rachmat, ²Indyo Pratomo, ³Adi Maryono

¹The Regional IAGI Nusa Tenggara
²The Regional IAGI Jawa Barat-Banten.
³The Regional IAGI Nusa Tenggara.

ABSTRACT

West Nusa Tenggara Province has geological and mining condition to be developed as ”a geotourism” as well as other existed tourism areas. Geotourism is one form of alternative tourism that involves traveling to natural areas with the specific objective of studying, admiring, and enjoying the scenery, the volcano, caves, water fall, hot spring, mining, etc., as well as any existing geological manifestations found in these areas.

The term alternative tourism has two meanings, namely: firstly a certain form of tourism which was developed as a reaction to the negative impacts of conventional tourism development; and secondly a different form of tourism which was developed to support enviromental conservation and/or community development.

The development should consider efforts of improvments, among others to improve the quality and values of tourism products, the region’s image as a safe and pleasant tourist destination area, quality of the human resources, cross-sectoral coordination, tourism awareness of the people, activities in arts, as well as regulations for the tourism industry.

Regarding to the planning of the geotourism program in the PT. Newmont Nusa Tenggara mining area so far I know, is “a new paradigm” in the development to discover about tourism object in generall.

By optimizing geology tourism potential and mining based environment, it is expected in the future West Nusa Tenggara can be one of the model for geology potensial use and mining activity that always concerning to the environment.