Gain experience in managing of agrotourism through workshops and comparative studies
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I NYOMAN RAI
This comparative study was attended by tourism
actors in Sibetan Village including members and manager of the Kerta Semaya Farmer
Group, members of Abian Salak farmer women's
group, members of the Karang Taruna Youth Organization, as
well as the Sibetan village administration apparatus. This comparative study
aims to invite tourism actors and stakeholders in Sibetan Village to see and
learn directly to Cau Belayu Village, Marga District, Tabanan Regency on
developing rural tourism packages, entrepreneurship and agro-tourism
management. Cau Belayu Village was chosen as a place of comparative study on
the grounds that this village has successfully developed rural-based rural
tourism, even though legally Cau Belayu Village has not been officially
designated as one of the Tourism Villages in Tabanan Regency. With this
comparative study, it is expected that all stakeholders in Sibetan Village are
expected to have creative ideas in developing agrotourism in Sibetan Village in
accordance with their potential, it does not mean that they can trace
everything in Cau Belayu Village, but rather adapt to the main potential in the
Village Sibetan is the development of zalacca-based agro-tourism
The lesson to be learned from this comparative
study is related to the development of rural tourism packages, namely: rural
tourism packages packed in Cau Blayu Village are simple packages including
introducing tourists to life about the daily lives of the people of Cau Belayu
Village, including pedicab activities, visiting elementary schools and here
there is cooperation with the school so that tourists are given access to visit
the school and are given the opportunity for tourists to enter the classroom see
the teaching and learning process at the elementary school, then introduce
activities to plow rice fields to tourists and packaging learning to cook local
Balinese cuisine such as making satay wrap, nas ikuning, sambal matah,
stir-fried vegetable water spinach, fried tempeh that is packaged in such a way
that is interpreted attractively by local gemandu. What's interesting about
this rural tour package is that the food and beverage offerings to tourists are
all natural and that do exist and are grown in the village of Cau Belayu for
example serving welcome drink from ivory young coconut (nyuh nyuh ivory),
cinnamon, the use of banana leaves as a base food is placed on a plate, the use
of glass from a coconut shell are all local and Balinese nuances.