Pengembangan Pusat Ekowisata Bambu Wulung di Desa Sudimara

Currently, people tend to like natural tourism products that are environmentally friendly and display local culture and social origin. As a response to the shift in public interest in tourism, new alternative tourist destinations are needed that can be started from the smallest unit of regional tourism, namely the development of tourist villages. The development of tourist villages must pay attention to environmental conditions so that they do not have negative impacts, such as inappropriate land conversion, lack of absorption areas, environmental damage, security problems to the loss of the village's original identity. Therefore, efforts are needed to prevent the negative impacts of village development, one of which is through the concept of ecotourism. Ecotourism is a travel activity that is packaged by taking into account the preservation of nature. Sudimara Village, which is located in Cilongok District, Banyumas Regency, Central Java, has natural beauty and potential that can be developed into a tourist village, one of which is through bamboo wulung. However, not many people can manage wulung bamboo, this is very unfortunate considering the availability of wulung bamboo is easy to find. On this basis, the author proposes the concept of developing a wulung bamboo ecotourism center in Sudimara Village. The purpose of developing the wulung bamboo ecotourism center is to optimize natural resources in the form of wulung bamboo supported by the local potential of Sudimara Village with environmentally friendly characters and empowering local communities, thereby improving the standard of living of the people. The concept that will be used in this planning and design is ecological architecture, which is development that is made in harmony with nature and has the lowest impact on the environment. Keywords: Sudimara Village, Tourism Village, Ecotourism, Bamboo Wulung