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Abstract
The paradigm of developing alternative tourism is a development option for Bali Aga village as a tourism village. This paper aims at investigating form of alternative tourism implementation in Bali Aga Village valued by its tourist activities. This research focuses on tourist aspects including the importance of culture, motives for traveling (what they do on holiday and how they feel and behave) such as participating with the local people making bamboo weaving, they felt like family members. Because of the interaction that makes tourists and local people very closely filled with a sense of kinship. The importance of this research is to determine how much the characteristics of alternative tourism have been implemented in Bali Aga village. This research is a qualitative research. Data were taken by administering purposive sampling technique. The results of the study are used as a basis for describing the application of alternative tourism concepts in two villages of Bali Aga, namely Pedawa Village and Sidatapa Village, Buleleng Regency. The study shows that (1) tourists really like the culture that is owned by the community, (2) the purpose of visiting tourists does have a purpose to get to know the culture of the community and be involved in people's lives; (3) visiting tourists live in the home of the Bali Aga village community. Thus, the totality of community involvement as actors of tourist service providers has been able to show the main characteristics of alternative tourism.
Highlights
During the last few years, in Bali there has been the development of traditional villages as tourist villages
Whereas in North Bali, namely Buleleng Regency in developing its area through an alternative tourism approach, 31 villages have been designated as tourist villages through the Buleleng Regent's Decree of Bali Province, Number 430/ 405/ HK/ 2017, which has involved the Bali Aga rural area known as SCTPB (Sidatapa Village, Cempaga Village, Tigawasa Village, Pedawan Village and Banyuseri Village)
Pedawa village is included in the rural area of the village of Bali Aga, the village of Bali Aga Bali Aga has the meaning that there are groups of people who inhabit the mountainous region and are a society that is difficult to subdue when the Majapahit Kingdom ruled Bali
Summary
During the last few years, in Bali there has been the development of traditional villages as tourist villages. It is hoped that through the development of the potential of traditional villages, it can attract special interest tourism and be able to improve the economy of local communities. Research in other countries shows that old village such as China have developed the rural tourism industry for years (Gao & Wu, 2017). This is interesting because revitalizing traditional villages has become the main academic and practical topic in China. The determination was based on the potential possessed by these villages (interviewing Nyoman Sutrisna, 60 years), and has made the village a tourist destination by local and foreign tourists
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