PENILAIAN WISATAWAN TERHADAP POTENSI OBYEK WISATA ALAM AIR TERJUN MORAMO DI KABUPATEN KONAWE SELATAN

This research was conducted with the aim to find: �Tourists Assessment toward natural tourism site of Moramo water fall�. The problem formulation in this research was divided into 2 basic parts, those are (1) how was the tourists assessment toward the natural tourism site of Moramo water fall potency on the perspective of naturalness, scarcity, uniqueness and beauty.(2) how was the tourists assessment toward the tourism area of Moramo water fall on the perspective of attraction accessibility and its supported facility. At this research it was set the respondent population of tourists with the method of accidental sampling, a method in which respondent taken is the tourists who is in the studied area which is tourism site of Moramo water fall. The existing population in the tourism site at the time of data sampling was 581 people. The data sampling was conducted on Saturday and Sunday in February 2012 and samples obtained as the respondent are 85 people. In this research the sample determining was done by the purposive sample technique, an intentional sampling technique. Based on the sampling data it can be conclude that: from the uniqueness side it can be concluded that the tourism site of Moramo water fall has the uniqueness point as 54,1percent, it means that this tourism site was considered as unique tourism site for the majority of the tourists who visit it, because the water fall has seven stages and there is one pool which can be used for bathing and swimming. From the naturalness it can be concluded that the tourism site of Moramo water fall has the naturalness point as 47,1 percent, it means that the tourism site was considered by the majority of the tourists as a naturally tourism site because this tourism site was still natural and there was no artificial part of it. From the scarcity side it was obtain point as 49.4 percent of tourists who consider that this site was an scarce place because the type of stone which was not mossy even though the water flows on it continuously. From the beauty side it was concluded that 44.7 percent of tourist assess that the Moramo waterfall was so beautiful because the flow of the water and the trees around. Form the attraction side it was concluded that the tourism area of Moramo waterfall was plain and unremarkable, because there was no other facility beside the waterfall. From the accessibility side it was concluded that the 45.9 percent, the road condition in the tourism site and 60.0 percent the road condition as the way to the tourism site was not appropriate because the road way as the way to tourism object was not repaired and was not be paved yet. From the supported facility side it was concluded that the supported facility in that tourism site was not appropriate yet those were the signage, toilette, garbage can, shelter because the provided facility was not maintained well and there was no facility which was needed by the tourists in tourism area