Community perspective analysis of sustainable tourism village development in Batu Jong-Jong Village, Langkat District, North Sumatra Province

Tourism is a concept developed by considering the social, economic and environmental influences of tourism activities on tourist destinations and neighborhood communities. The concept of sustainable tourism is an important standard set by the government to increase the quantity and quality of tourism. One of the government's efforts to maximize sustainable tourism is to provide encouragement and assistance to tourist villages. Batu Jong-Jong TourismVillage is a tourist village that has extraordinary natural resources. Batu Jong-Jong Village has been eyed as a potential that must be developed in the Langkat Destination Area. The community is seen as the main actor forimplementing the concept of sustainable tourism. Therefore, this study aims to determine the community's perspective on the implementation of sustainable tourism villages develompemnt in Batu Jong- Jong Village,Langkat Regency, North Sumatra Province. This research is a quantitative descriptive research, with records series techniques thru questionnaires that have been tested for validity and reliability. The populace used is the people of Batu Jong-Jong Village, with a sample of 30 respondents (aged between 13-35 years). The results of the observe show that the influence of the community perspective variable is 22.3% significant enough to influence sustainable tourism villages development, on the other hand there are the rest 77.7% influenced by other variables outside of this research. The conclusion of this study is that the community perspective simultaneously has a positive and significant impact on sustainable tourism villages.