Thesis: Despite being one of the most hazardous natural disasters, volcanoes also bring many

benefits to human life in various fields such as environment, mining industries, and

economy.

III. Economy

B. Life benefits

1. Tourism (Schminke, 2004, pp. 282-287) (Cooper, 2010, pp. 1-6) (Erfurt-

Cooper & Cooper cited in Cooper, 2010, pp. 1-6) (Dowling & Newsome

cited in Cooper, 2010, pp. 1-6) (Brace cited in Cooper, 2010, pp. 1-6)

(USGS cited in Cooper, 2010, pp. 1-6) (Chester cited in Cooper, 2010, pp.

1-6) (Te Papa cited in Cooper, 2010, pp. 1-6) (Joyce cited in Cooper, 2010,

pp. 1-6) (Wood cited in Cooper, 2010, pp. 1-6)

2. Art (Lockwood & Hazlett, 2010, pp. 410-411)

Paragraph IIIB

(A), the other economic benefit beside energy benefits is life benefits. The first type

of life benefit is in tourism sector. Sometimes, this type of tourism is called volcano tourism.

Erfurt-Cooper and Cooper once emphasized, ‘‘Volcano tourism involves the exploration and

study of active volcanic and geothermal landforms and processes. Volcano tourism also

includes visits to dormant and extinct volcanic regions where remnants of activity attract

visitors with an interest in geological heritage (Erfurt-Cooper, 2010, p. 1). There are reasons

why tourists choose volcanic areas as a tourist destination. Nowadays, the popularity of

volcanic areas as tourist destination are still growing and become more famous. Schminke

states that visitors of active volcano can be very great in numbers. In the US, national parks in

volcanically active areas, just have a very little different in numbers of visitors compared with

Grand Canyon and Yosemite National Park, which is considered being very famous tourist

destination in the world. For example, Hawaiian National Park attracts 2.5 million visitors a

year and Yellowstone National Park attracts 3 million visitors a year. It is also happened in

non-active volcanic area, for example, Mount Ranier is visited by 2 million people in a year

(2004, p. 282).