PERSEPSI MAHASISWA PENDIDIKAN BIOLOGI TERHADAP EKOWISATA DI ERA NEW NORMAL
Oleh Melina Siska Ayuwaningsih
ABSTRACT
Ecotourism is a nature-based travel tour that prioritizes conservation and makes the livelihood of local residents. Ecotourism is one of the elective courses in Ahmad Dahlan University’s biology education study program. Biology education students have the competence to play a direct role in ecotourism in Indonesia by looking at the potential of the area. After the Covid19 pandemic, ecotourism was closed and gradually reopened in the new normal era. This is research aims to analyze the results of biology education students’ perceptions of ecotourism in the new normal era based on student responses. This type of research is a qualitative description, data retrieval is done by dividing Google Form which contains 9 questions to 27 students of biology education consisting of 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019. This research also uses literature studies such as books, articles, news or relevant magazines about ecotourism. The results of this study indicate that ecotourism in the new normal era can be carried out with two concepts, online and offline. Online ecotourism can be done by holding a webinar or virtual that is equipped with a guide. While offline ecotourism can also be reapplied by fulfilling health protocols properly, managing schedules and the number of visitors. The concept of ecotourism still needs to be continuously optimized and evaluation needs to be carried out for the sake of ecotourism in the new normal era well.
Keywords: Role of Biology Education Students, Ecotourism, New Normal, Pandemic.
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