This research aims to develop strategies and models community engagement to build a tough society disaster on Mandalika's priority tourism destinations. As one of the national strategic areas in the tourism sector, Mandalika has great economic potential, but is also faced with many catastrophic risks, both nature and nature. This condition demands that there be an approach that is not only oriented to infrastructure aspects, but also to amplify the capacity of society as a leading actor in mitigation and disaster readiness.

Approach community engagement In this study emphasizes the active involvement of the local community in every stage of disaster risk management, starting with the identification of potential risk, the planning of mitigation, to the implementation of the strategy of readiness. Society becomes the key to building collective awareness, enhancing adaptive capacity, and strengthening social networks that support community resilience.

This study uses a qualitative approach with a skeleton Soft System Methodology (SSM) to understand the complexity of the problems and the social dynamics of the Mandalika region. This method allows researchers to identify key actors, analyze the relationship between the system elements, as well as formulate relevant conceptual and contextual models.

The Urgenation of this research lies in the importance of reducing the vulnerability of tourist destinations to disaster that potentially disrupted the continuity of the tourism industry and the welfare of the local people. This research is expected to produce models community engagement that is effective and adaptive in building a tough society disaster. In addition, this study is also expected to contribute theoretically to the development of community-based hate studies, as well as to be a reference to my players in designing the statistical mitigation of participatory and sustainable disaster in priority tourism areas.