Analysis on agricultural landscape for agrotourism development at nagari pandai sikek, tanah

datar district, West Sumatera Province

Highland agricultural landscape which is combined with its local culture unique properties
such as the culture of Nagari Pandai Sikek, West Sumatra. It is an interesting tourism object and
attraction. However, the agrotourism development in that area has not been optimally planned.
The characteristic of agricultural landscape of each area or Jorong, a part of nagari landscape
unit, as a tourism object and the tourism supporting factors should be studied well. The objective
of this study was to identify and analyze local landscape characteristic and its potency of tourism
supporting factor in each Jorong of Nagari Pandai Sikek, then to propose the concept for
agrotourism development. The landscape assesment scoring and comparison exponential
method were used to determine the potency of each Jorong. The results showed that the Jorong
Pagu-Pagu has the highest potency value of 3.51. Jorong Baruah, Jorong Tanjung, and Jorong
Koto Tinggi has medium potency with its value 3.48, 3.46 and 3.43 respectively. Jorong Pagu-
Pagu is highly potencial for its uniqueness and attractiveness as agrotourism object. Jorong
Baruah, besides its high potencial for community acceptance and the availability of supporting
facilities, it is also located in the main access to Padang and Bukit Tinggi. The concept proposed
for agrotourism development is by enchancing the most potencial Jorong Pagu-pagu, and it was
promoting tourism development in the second best object at Jorong Baruah, then developing
Jorong Tanjung and Jorong Koto Tinggi as tourism supporting areas. The unique local
characteristics should be preserved and the local community should be involved in tourism
development.

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