Kuta is a region located in Badung Regency, which has the highest number of workers in the tourism industry in Bali. Despite this, the Covid-19 pandemic has had a significant economic impact on both workers and tourism operators in Kuta. This is evidenced by reduced working hours, layoffs, closures of tourism-related businesses, and slowdown in the economy in Kuta. The objective of this study is to explore how tourism industry players in Kuta have conducted their activities before, during, and after the pandemic. The study adopts a qualitative research methodology, utilizing in-depth interviews with tourism actors and workers in Kuta from various backgrounds, such as hotel owners, surfing instructors, hotel staff, guest house and laundry owners, travel agents and tour guides, online motorcycle drivers, motorbike rental owners, and souvenir traders. The findings of the study reveal that every business actor and worker in the tourism sector has their own approach to cope with the Covid-19 pandemic. Keywords: tourism resilience, covid-19 pandemic, tourism workers, Kuta Bali.
This study examines the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and challenges of tourist villages in Bali; find important criteria in the development of tourist villages in Bali; and formulate strategic priorities for the development of tourist villages in Bali that offer adventure tourism attractions during the Covid-19 Pandemic. As a qualitative study, data analysis was carried out using SWOT, AHP, and a combination of SWOT and AHP. This study found that tourist villages with adventure tourism attractions during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Bali had strengths: variations in tourist attractions, community readiness to accept tourists during the Covid-19 Pandemic, people were easy to adapt, the implementation of health protocols was understood by the community; Weaknesses: public transportation to tourist villages, access is not well organized, tourist attractions are relatively the same; opportunities: potential to attract tourists, nature and culture support the development of tourist villages; and threats: digital technology in marketing tourism village products has not been evenly distributed, the entry of foreign investors into tourist villages. Three important criteria in the development of tourist villages during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Bali: concern for CHSE (score 0.351), security guarantees (score 0.34), and ease of CHSE facilities (score 0.329). Meanwhile, three strategic priorities need to be implemented: healthy tourism (score 0.89), sports tourism (score 0.67) and environmentally friendly tourism (score 0.58). Keywords: tourism village; adventure tourism; tourist attraction; covid-19 pandemic.
Cagar Budaya Candi Muara Jambi Area is one of the national heritages which is a cultural heritage in Jambi Province with an area of 3,981 hectares. The located of Kawasan Cagar Budaya Candi Muara Jambi is at the estuary of the Batanghari River which poses a threat to the flood disaster of the Batanghari River in every rainy season. The study aims to maaping the level of vulnerability and to analyse the level of disaster vulnerability by reducing the impact of losses and the impact of disaster due to the Batanghari River flood disaster in the Kawasan Cagara Budaya Candi Muara Jambi. Determination of the level of disaster vulnerability through four parameters of vulnerability, they are social vulnerability, economic vulnerability, physical vulnerability, and environmental vulnerability. The approach of the studi is GIS approach with an analysis of the level disaster vulnerability is using overlay, scoring, and weighting techniques. The results of the study is disaster vulnerability level of flood disaster in Kawasan Cagar Budaya Candi Muara Jambi is at medium level of disaster vulnerability. Keywords: flood disaster; watersheds; vulnerability disaster.
This study aims to determine the effect of instagramability and social media on the decision to revisit tourists at the Situhapa Rose Garden tourist attraction. The analysis of this study uses the decision to visit as the dependent variable, by combining instagramable and social media variables as independent variables and using multiple linear regression tests as data analysis assisted by IBM SPSS software version 20.0. The data collection method used in this study was to distribute questionnaires to the research sample, namely tourists at the Rose Garden tourist attraction with a total sample of 100 respondents who were selected using a purposive sampling technique. The regression model in this study is Y = 2.709+0.954X_1+1.631X_2. This study shows that instagramable and social media variables simultaneously influence visiting decisions. Furthermore, the instagramable variable has a partial effect on the decision to visit, then the social media variable has a partial effect on the decision to visit. The ability to observe instagramable and social media variables in explaining their relationship to the visiting decision variable statistically is 74.5% (D) and the remaining 25.5% is determined by variations in other variables that are not examined. Keywords: instagramable; social media; decision to visit the situhapa rose garden tourism object
Humans are ancient creatures who live in the modern era; human evolution is closely related to the evolution of the natural surroundings. The concept of human connection to nature tradition of going into the forest is known almost throughout Asia by various names; in Japan, the ancient tradition of forest walks to reduce tension and mental fatigue is called Shinrin-yoku, translated in English as Forest Bathing. In ancient Bali, there was a tradition of spending one of the four stage of live (catur asrama) dealing with the forest, known as Vanaprastha. Bali have a great potential to develop eco-tourism and has no shortage of wellness retreats. This qualitative exploratory study, attempts to synthesize the concepts of forest bathing, ecotourism, wellness, and vanaprastha, as an initial proposal to mini theory development, with a typical qualitative approach adopting the five-phased cycle of data compilation, disassembling, reassembling, interpreting and concluding. Utilizing manual data analysis procedures. This study manages to disassemble concepts of the phenomena, subtract them down into distinctive elements, then reassemble the intersected elements into themes, to be then made into compounds to be interpreted and arranged as a new concept of sustainable nature and forest-based tourism aimed at improving the health of tourists through cultural healing while accelerating the capacity building of the host community on economic sustainability – practices that are geared towardslong-term economic growth, which minimize adverse impacts to social, environmental, and cultural aspects of the community. Keywords: vanaprastha wellness tourism; forest bathing; ecotourism; wellness
