Local Community Life Satisfaction at Early Stage Tourist Destination

The developing destinations are marked by increasing level of community life satisfaction. The objective of study is to identify the level of life satisfaction of local people in early stage tourist destinations. The method is a survey with a mix method analysis to justify the findings. Primary data were obtained from 6 tourism actors and local community leaders, while secondary data were obtained from official government institutions. The location of the study was two mangrove destination in North Karawang, West Java. The results showed that in the early stages of tourism destination development, the level of life satisfaction of the local community showed a high response to the subjective indicators but lower to the objective. In subjective indicators, the highest response occurs in the community's collectivity in building, but low in fulfilling personal aspects, especially awareness about the future. Local people feel relatively satisfied with their living conditions, especially family, social religious situation, and physical environment. They also view that tourism can be an alternative way out to improve economic conditions and the physical environment. Further research needs to see behavioral changes of local community to face destination development due to the increasing number of tourists.


INTRODUCTION Background
Destination development and management is one of the major concerns of any country or any region or destination in any part of the world. The nature of the destination, resources available, hosts, the visitor's behavior and experiences and management of tourism resources optimally are extremely important research topics today (Manhas, Manrai, & Manrai, 2016). According to (Kim, 2002)  . The rapid growth of destination development has been powerful means of investment, creates jobs, and promotes the destination.
Accordingly the life satisfaction of community should be increased too.
This integration will guarantee the creation of harmonization among the interests of stakeholders including the local community (Abdillah, Damanik, Fandeli, & Sudarmadji, 2015). Destination development and its connection to residents' Quality of Life (QoL) has many atention over the past few years (Bimonte, D'Agostino, Grilli, & Pagliuca, 2019 (Sukardjo, 1993  Expand market share and build awareness among the tourist. By implementing both strategies, the destination hope to attain a strong market position before competitors enters (Cooper, 1992

Life Satisfaction
According to Gondos (2014) concept In subjective context, Kim (2002)  Khizindar (2012) To analyze direct effect of tourism on the perception of resident quality of life and to investigate between tourism and demographic information 3 subjective indicators are adopted from (Kim, 2002) to measure overall QOL.
Social, cultural, and environmental impacts affect resident's quality of life and demographic characteristics affect their perception of tourism domains.
To determine the relationship between perception of tourism impact and community stakeholder quality of life 6 subjective items are adopted from previous research in order to measure overall quality of life.  (Uysal, Sirgy, Woo, & Kim, 2015) and add one research specific in Indonesia (*). This table includes studies that examine residents' Quality of Life (QoL). Thus, it is not intended to be exhaustive in its coverage.

Tourism Development and Life Satisfaction
The development of tourism research and quality of life with a series of reviews since 2012 (Uysal, Sirgy, Woo, & Kim, 2015).

METHOD
The research method is a survey research rather with a qualitative approach.  Sajogyo (1977) stated that a high level of income will provide greater opportunities for households to choose food that is better in quantity and quality of nutrition. Low income will cause low quality of family nutrition.
The following data is the human development data of Karawang areas:

Subjective Indicators of Quality of Life
Subjective data from the interview consist of:

a) Happiness
Happiness is general psychological well-being or satisfaction with life as a whole (Santrock, 2002).  strong social capital in both villages is a high spirit of progress and development.

Discussion
Analysis of the findings was carried out in accordance with the objective of the study, to measure the quality of life of local community and determine which variable is the most prominent. The analysis used is descriptive personal judgment, as follows: