Evaluating the Sustainability Status of Pinus Sari Forest as an Ecotourism Destination Using Multi-Dimensional Scaling

Ecotourism is a type of forest management that places a strong emphasis on the idea of balancing the use of forest resources for both environmental and economic purposes.Pinus Sari Forest (PSF) is an ecotourism object destination with the main tourist attraction being old pine trees which mark the shift from pine sap harvesting to tourism activities.Due to the transition of forest management in PSF, it is necessary to assess the sustainability of ecotourism activities.This research aims to assess the sustainability status of PSF ecotourism object destinations.This research used a multi-dimensional scaling (MDS) method to cover the five specific dimensions, namely ecological, economic, social, legal and institutional, as well as accessibility and infrastructure with the given number of attributes in each dimension.This research reveals that the ecological (74.95%), economic (69.46%), social (59.5%), legal and institutional (57.42%), accessibility and infrastructure (58.66%) dimensions are all classified as moderately sustainable.Based on the sustainability index of these five dimensions, this research concludes that the level of sustainability of this PSF ecotourism object destination is moderately sustainable, with an obtained index of 62.77%.We recommend the operator evaluate and manage the sensitive attributes properly to escalate the sustainability status of the PSF ecotourism destination.