Needs Assessment of one Municipality in the Philippines: Basis for Sustainable Community Extension Tourism Program

Community Extension is one of the tri-fold functions in Lyceum of the Philippines University Batangas. It plays an important role in the social transformation and becomes an instrument in changing lives of many Batanguenos by providing sustainable projects. This study is aimed to propose a sustainable tourism community extension program that would seek to develop the community and improve the quality of life of the local resident. This study used the descriptive method of research with the local residents serving as the respondents of the Result shows that most of the respondents are 55 years old and above, students and employed. The community has a great need in terms of environmental followed by health and economic and lastly socio-cultural. The age, occupation and educational attainment and residence are not significantly related and not significant factors in determining the community needs. A sustainable Tourism community extension program is proposed for the benefit of the local community.

Keywords – Community Extension, Environmental, Sustainable Tourism, Batangas