SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS FOR THE TOURISM SECTOR

Sustainable tourism continuously preserves and provides various facilities in an area that has tourist attractions, be it environmental or cultural, and modernizing social structure in the area to become an economic activity which contributes to national revenue and improving the quality of life of the local communities. The purpose of this study is to identify the indicator factors of sustainability in the field of tourism. Interviews based on a set of questionnaires were conducted on 125 respondents in Ranau, Sabah. The factor analysis produces five indicator factors of economic sustainability (tourist spending on accommodation, job creation and income, tourist attractions, tourists origin, and related and supporting industries), three factor indicators of social sustainability (infrastructure and infrastructure facilities, traditional and cultural conservation, and management and conservation), and two indicator factors of environmental sustainability (environmental education as well as research and enforcement).