Osronita, Syafri Anwar, Siti Fatimah, Aprizon Putra, Mira Hasti Hasmira, Eri Barlian
This research aims to identify factors and indicators for assessing geo-tourism using a sustainable environmental approach. The study incorporates a Mixed Method design, specifically The Explanatory Sequential Design. Data analysis employs the Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) approach with the Structural Equation Modeling-Partial Least Square (SEM-PLS) method and the Gutman scale. The findings reveal that geo-tourism assessment includes three factors - environmental, social, and economic - and a total of 100 indicators. The analysis indicates that the sustainability level is currently “Not yet sustainable, ” meeting the convergent validity criteria with factor loading values exceeding 0.5. The factor loading values range from 0.473 to 0.886, with social factors displaying the lowest loading value (0.517), signifying their dominance in the assessment and indicating unsustainability. Comparatively, economic factors display a loading factor value of 0.743, and environmental factors register 0.888. The formulation of proposed policy strategies for assessing tourism through a sustainable environmental approach is informed by 49 dominant factors and indicators across the three environmental, social, and economic facets. These strategies will be enacted through Village Regulations and adapted Regional Regulations within villages and tourism areas. © UMT Press
Department of Geography, Univeritas Tamansiswa Padang, West Sumatra, Padang City, 25171, Indonesia; Doctoral Program of Environmental Science, Universitas Negeri Padang, West Sumatra, Padang City, 25173, Indonesia; National Research and Innovation Agency, Central Jakarta, Jakarta, 10340, Indonesia
