摘要：East Ile Ape has potential tourism site which is suitable to be developed. It covers
mangrove forest, sea, volcano as well as kampung adat Lamariang which never been
touched by any other parties. By development of tourism site, it can help East Ile Ape to
enhance its people welfare. It can be done by developing a commercial ecotourism site.
Ecotourism is the one of tourism activities which concerns on natural conservation. This
study was conducted by using descriptive quantitative analysis technique and linear
regression which were processed by SPSS. The total number of samples is 40. The result
showed that the development of ecotourism is significantly correlated to local people
welfare.
关键词：Ecotourism; People Welfare; East Ile Ape district.
