The Implementation of The Community-Based Tourism at Tista Tourist Village

摘要

The Government of Bali is paying more serious attention to the development of the community-based tourism. The factthat more and more villages are determined to be tourist villages indicates this. In 2016 Tista Village was determined as a tourist village by the Regent of Tabanan through the Decree No. 180/325/HK & HAM/2016. This current study analyses the implementation of the community-based tourism at Tista tourist village, Kerambitan, Tabanan. The data were collected through observation, in-depth interview, and documentation. Those who really comprehend the implementation of the community-based tourism at Tista village were determined as the informants. The data were analyzed descriptively and qualitatively. The result shows that the implementation of the community-based tourism at Tista tourist village gives emphasis on four principles contributing to the development of the community-based tourism. They are (1) the village is developed to be a tourist one in such a way that it will economically benefit its people; 2) empowering the local people to manage the village is a priority; 3) the nature is conserved; and 4) the local people's socio-culture is preserved. The implementation of the four principles turns out to be able to cause the local people to be getting aware that the tourist village should be sustainably developed. The implementation of the community-based tourism model developed at Tista Village can be adopted as the raw model for the other villages developed as the tourist ones in Bali in general and in Tabanan Regency in particular. In this way, the local people will really feel the positive contribution of the development of tourism in their villages.