ABSTRACT
Mountainous tourism is not free from hazards, such as volcanic eruptions, landslides or wildfires. The potency of catastrophic losses depends on the ability to prevent or avoid disasters and their durability. Thus, the purpose of the study is to analyze the development model in mountains tourism based on disasters mitigation in one of ring of fire areas in Indonesia, Patuha Mountain. The study was conducted by the comparative analysis between existing literature and the reality on the ground to provide a real effort to build a mountain tourism based on disaster mitigation. The results of study showed that mountain tourism development should consider disaster mitigation to give the sense of comfort and assurance of safety for tourists who visit. The tourist activities also should provide security for the local people and improve the locals’ welfare and their living conditions. However, tourism development in this area has not been optimal in the development of mountain tourism area based disaster mitigation. Many factors that become cause of unoptimal mitigation efforts were the lack of knowledge of both tourist and local people about the condition of the area, the unawareness of the management about the potential hazards, and also the inappropriate policies.
