• Firdaus Hamta
• Ade Parlaungan Nasution,
• Rahman Hasibuan
• Mustaqim Syuaib
• Mulyadi

This study investigates the relationship between local government policies, tourist areas and people's economic behavior. The population in this study amounted to 375 people who live in the ecotourism area of Jembatan I, II, III and IV in Relang and Bulang Batam Districts and the number of samples is as much as 193. Data analysis techniques using SEM with AMOS 21. The results of the study local government policies have a significant effect on community economic behavior in Rempang and Bulang Batam with tourist areas as intervening variables. Eco tourism area has a significant effect on economic behavior in Rempang and Bulang Batam. The tourist area has no significant effect on economic behavior in Rempang and Bulang Batam. This means that the economic behavior of the community in the ecotourism area is more dominantly stimulated to meet the needs of family life, not because it is oriented towards the potential of tourism in the environment.

local government policies, community economic behavior and The tourist area

"The Goverment Policies Impact on Economic Development of Society and Tourism", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 1, page no.574-582, January-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2101283.pdf

"The Goverment Policies Impact on Economic Development of Society and Tourism", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 1, page no. pp574-582, January-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2101283.pdf