Identification of Tourist Attractions in Timpag Village

Abstract

The development of tourist attraction is an alternative way to improve the income of the people who live in and surround a village. The development of tourist attraction in a village should be in harmony with its environment in order to have a positive impact. Timpag village is one of the villages in Tabanan district, Bali which is trying to become a tourist village. At present, the development of tourist attractions in the Timpag village is occur sporadically and has not been based on the potential of the village. There is no master plan or initial study related to the tourism potential of the Timpag village. Identification of attractions and tourist activities in this village is needed in each tourist attraction to facilitate planning and development of sustainable tourist attractions. The method to obtain data is deep interview with government staff and tourist attraction owner is used to get data, swot analysis is then used to process the data obtained. Timpag village has 3 tourist attraction that is being developed sporadically, namely Uma Urip, D’Bendungan View and Batur Holly Spring at Sambian Undagi Farm. Based on these results, the recommendations of the types of tourism developed are given to each tourist attraction, namely Uma Urip has the potential to be developed as natural tourism, D’Bendungan View could be promoting as recreational tourism, and Batur Holly Spring can be developed as cultural tourism.