The Contribution of Basic Occupational Health Services for Sustainable Tourism: a Case Study in Mangunan Forest Tourism Site, Yogyakarta

Abstract

Background: Basic Occupational Health Services (PKD) are health empowerment efforts for workers and their work environment. BOHS provides promotive, preventive, and protective services through hazard identification and risk control activities; health and safety supervision; basic occupational health education; and provision of safety equipment, which is expected to impact forest tourism's sustainability. There is still a lack of qualitative research empirically exploring the BOHS in forest tourism and its impact on sustainable tourism. This study aimed to explore the implementation of BOHS in the tourism village of Mangunan, Yogyakarta, and its impact on forest tourism sustainability.
Methods: A qualitative case study approach was used, conducted from January to February 2024; data were collected at BOHS of the Becici Peak, Pinus Pengger, Lintang Sewu, Pinus Asri, Mangunan forest tourism areas through semi-structured interviews with 9 informants: tourism employees and managers, health workers, and public health officials, selected by purposive sampling. Data analysis by thematic analysis.
Results: This study found a limited BOHS activities in Mangunan, weak organizational management, and low employee participation. Theoretically, BOHS can improve employee welfare and maintain the work environment so that healthy employees will be productive in the present and future, but empirically, the implementation of BOHS in Mangunan cannot prove its contribution to sustainable tourism. 

Conclusion: BOHS managed effectively has the potential to significantly improve worker welfare and environmental conservation, thereby contributing to the long-term sustainability of tourism. The urgency for stronger BOHS development is clear, as it is needed to support responsible forest tourism management.

Keywords: Basic occupational health; Health promotion; Forest tourism; Responsible tourism; Sustainable tourism;