CROWDFUNDING AS AN ALTERNATIVE FUNDING FOR GREEN TOURISM

Abstract

This paper is a conceptual paper that discuss the condition and the needs for tourism crowdfunding platform  for green tourism. Crowdfunding is an alternative way to fund new or existing tourism project. Crowdfunding mainly dominated as a platform for conventional business and social donation. Crowdfunding platform that spesifically designed for tourism is lacking. On the other side, crowdfunding in tourism can boost green tourism because of the support from the funder that aware on the conservation of the environment. The method used in this study is site analysis and the finding is analized descriptive analytic. The result shows that there is no crowdfunding platform in  that spesifically designed for tourism. There is opportunity to make a crowdfunding platform that specifically designed for green tourism project to make creator and donor need’s meet in the platform. This research offers a new way to seek funding for green tourism to boost sustainibility on tourism using crowdfunding.