The Beauty of A Tourist Village in Aceh

A tourist village is a form of integration between attractions, accommodation and supporting facilities presented in a community life structure that blends with the prevailing rules and traditions. _[Source]

Based on the patterns, processes, and types of managers, tourist villages can be classified into two types:

1. structured type
2. open type. _[Source]

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Character of tourist villages with a structured type

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Some characteristics of tourist villages with a structured type, including:

1. Limited land
   for this type of tourist village usually equipped with a specific infrastructure for the area so that the image is grown able to penetrate the international market.

2. Separation of locations from local communities
   Another characteristic of this type of tourist village is the separate location of the local community so that the negative impacts and social and cultural pollution caused will be detected and easy to control.

For the arrangement of the tourist village of structured type, to note is the size of the land because the land is too large will have an impact on the level of difficulty in control, so because the size of the land to organize a structured tourist village is not too large so it can still improve the ability of integrative and coordinated planning so is expected to become an agent to obtain international funds as a key element obtained from the services of star hotels.

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Character of Tourist Village with open type

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As for the open type, usually characterized by a region with a unified life structure, either space or pattern of local communities.

The advantages of this type of tourist village is directly felt and enjoyed by the local community, in the sense that the income distribution obtained from tourists can be directly enjoyed by local residents, but this type of tourism village has implications for rapid spread into one into the local population so it is very difficult to controlled.

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The Beauty of Tourist Village in Aceh

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**Lubuk Sukon Village is one of the villages selected to be a tourist village in Aceh}

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This village still very strong with local wisdom, because the village customs are still preserved, unique, beautiful village atmosphere, and very local, so the village of Lubuk Sukon is designated as a tourist village on 15 October 2012 officially by Aceh's government .