Unraveling Factors Influencing Local Willingness to Participate in Sustainable Komodo Conservation and Protected Area Tourism

A counterintuitive paradox emerges from Komodo National Park: the more local communities engage in sustainable tourism and conservation, the less likely they are to continue. Using Exploratory Factor Analysis and K-Means Cluster Analysis, researchers identified three key drivers of participation—sustainable tourism involvement, community-environmental engagement, and policy awareness—and found that demographic factors (settlement type, income, marital status, gender, age) shape diverse engagement patterns. Logistic regression revealed this 'sustainability fatigue' risk among highly active participants, underscoring the need for tailored, demographic-specific strategies to sustain long-term conservation efforts in protected areas.

Sianipar, I. M. J., Lee, C.-H., Wang, H.-J., Kim, D.-C., & Suryawan, I. W. K. (2024). Unraveling Factors Influencing Local Willingness to Participate in Sustainable Komodo Conservation and Protected Area Tourism. Forest and Society, 8(2), 350–371. https://doi.org/10.24259/fs.v8i2.32880