Gain experience in managing of agrotourism through workshops and comparative studies

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.