THE BALIANS: PROMOTING BALINESE TRADITIONAL ART EXHIBITION USING GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM

摘要

Bali is a tourism destination which be famous by its nature, culture, art and artist. Many Balinese artists gathered together in an art studio and held some traditional art attraction or exhibition. However, they are lack of promotion. Advances of technology could help Balinese artist for promoting Balinese traditional attraction or exhibition. This research focused on the development of a geographical information system named ?The Balians? (The Balinese-Art Entertainment Reservation). ?The Balians? was an information system which provided a way for promoting Balinese traditional art exhibition and facilitating the tourist or local people who want to watch the exhibition. This geographical information system worked as a website service, which was developed using PHP as the programming language, MySQL database, and cloud computing SaaS. ?The Balians? website was able to handle three entities, they were art studio as a place for the artist gathered together and also accommodating an exhibition, administrator who has authority for data verification, and the user -the tourist or local people- who wants to watch the held exhibition. There were three main features of ?The Balians?, those were exhibition booking, event ticket reservation, and online payment for the booked exhibition or tickets. The success rates of ?The Balians? as a reservation system and promotion media were measured by the Likert scale. The result of questionnaires which were used for measurement pointed out that 10 measurement variables were in Agree (A) and Strongly Agree (SA) categories. Those result meant that ?The Balians? had run appropriately.