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.
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