ABSTRACT
Tourism is considered capable of growing the local economy. Besides the positive impact in the form of an economic increase in an area, there are also negative impacts on both social and environmental aspects. In the environmental aspect, tourism based on natural resources (non-artificial) often bring out an environmental problems like waste pollution or environmental quality degradation. Dayeuhkolot Village, as a developing village, requires the strategies for increasing economic activities through tourism while it still keep considering the environmental aspect. Curug Goong is one of the tourism potentials site based on natural resources owned by Dayeuhkolot Village. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the calculation of the feasibility assessment of the Curug Goong tourism area planning with the environmental carrying capacity approach. The method of study used a primary survey like observation and semi-structured interviews. By using the carrying capacity approach, the analysis shows that the effective carrying capacity of Curug Goong tourism is 1.195 tourist per day with the average number of tourists per shift is 399 during the opening of tourist operating hours.
