The Evaluation of Beach Recreational Index for Coastal Tourism Zone of: Delegan, Kenjeran, and Wisata Bahari Lamongan

The aim of this paper is to show the comparation of recreationa index from three different coastal tourism places. The evaluation of beach recreational index for coastal tourism zone, as called Integrated Beach Value Index (IBVI), have been designed include; beach indicators or Beach Index (BI), beach user's perception or Knowledge Index (KI) and the indicator ofbeach economic value or Monetery Index (MI). These indexes have been applied for three different places that has similarity in fisiography but litle bit difference in social culture and social economical background. These places are;1.Kenjeran Beach, Surabaya; 2.Delegan Beach, Gresik; and 3.Wisata Bahari Lamongan (WBL) Beach, Lamongan. The result of IBVI give a conclusion of the best one forWBL. This gets the average of value as the highest. The next is Kenjeran Beach, both value of BI and KI are high but the value of MI is low. On the other hand, Delegan Beach has the medium value for BI and KI while the MI is low. This is due to not yet maximum implementation in spesific management's development, still in progres of revitalisation and restructurisation. The general key factors of the index evaluation in this research are availabel of structure and infastructure. These results may be used to make analysis from the comparation amoung them, and also to make evaluation for next development.