Social Identity Construction of Mangrove Forest Ecotourism

Study on Mangrove Forest Ecotourism in Lubuk Kertang Village, Sub-District of West Brandan, District of Langkat

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210125.050How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Social identity construction, Mangrove Forest Ecotourism, Tourists, Consumptive Culture, Fashion

Abstract

This study aimed to identify the construction of social identity of Mangrove Forest Ecotourism (A study on mangrove forest ecotourism in Lubuk Kertang Village, Sub-District of West Brandan, District of Langkat). Mangrove Forest Ecotourism in the region is one of the existing ecotourism destinations for mangrove forests. This study focused in determining the process of social identity construction in a consumptive culture within the tourists’ community at Mangrove Forest Ecotourism in Lubuk Kertang Village, Sub-District of West Brandan, District of Langkat during their visit. This research uses Social Construction Theory by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann with a descriptive qualitative approach. The informants of this study were domestic tourists who had consumptive values and visited mangrove forest ecotourism on weekends. Data collection techniques in this study were obtained through interviews, observation and documentation. This study was only limited to the construction process carried out by tourists with data obtained from interviews. The study concluded that ecotourism of the Mangrove Forest in Lubuk Kertang Village had not become a tourist area or a stimulant that shaped and built a new reality as a pseudo reality. Neither was it been able to form the image of the tourist destination itself. So far, the visit relied heavily on social media and the kinship system.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Anismar
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/01/26
TI  - Social Identity Construction of Mangrove Forest Ecotourism
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Science, Political Science, and Humanities (ICoSPOLHUM 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 303
EP  - 307
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210125.050
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210125.050
ID  - 2021
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