Community Empowerment in the Development of Natural Tourism Villages in Improving Community Welfare in Abiansemal Village, Badung Regency

Abstract

This paper is the result of Community Service activities located in Abiansemal Village, Abiansemal District, Badung Regency. The potential of the village owned by Abiansemal Village is in the form of natural scenery that is still beautiful and unspoiled. With beautiful and green natural capital, natural tourism is the right one to develop. Efforts to develop tourism villages in Badung Regency are for equitable development of the tourism sector so that it is not only focused on South Badung which has become a trade mark for Bali tourism. In addition, the still thick tradition of local cultural values and nature that is still beautiful is seen as a worthy potential for the development of the tourism sector by minimizing negative impacts. There are problems in the development of natural tourism, namely the lack of optimal community participation in involving the potential of existing tourism villages. With such problems, there needs to be assistance in optimizing community participation in the development of natural tourism. As a result of community service, there is an increase that the role of the community that was previously not optimally involved in the development of the Natural Tourism village in Abiansemal, so with the existence of service activities there is a significant development in community involvement. There is an increase in understanding related to natural tourism by tourism awareness groups in Abiansemal village. Then there are ideas that arise by the local community and are facilitated by village officials to develop supporting facilities for natural tourism villages in Abiansemal in the form of Culinary stalls with specialties from Abiansemal Village and food from the surrounding area.