The Best Strategy for Ensuring Sustainability of Bunaken National Park, North Sulawesi Indonesia

Bunaken National Park (BNP) is one of the most beautiful ecotourism destinations in Indonesia, especially for diving. There is biodiversity, especially coral reefs, pelagic fish and turtles. Due to increased tourist arrivals, there has been damage of coral reefs and sea water pollution, so sustainability of BNP as a tourist destination is threatened. This study aims to choose the best strategy to ensure sustainability of BNP. The result of the study showed that the best suitable strategy to ensure the sustainability of BNP is to make BNP as a limited tourism by setting the visitors and increasing the entrance fee at least twice of current one.

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