Pemberdayaan Masyarakat Dalam Pengembangan Desa Wisata Ekologis Di Desa Nyambu Kediri, Tabanan

A tourism village is a village possessing tourism destinations attracting tourists to come to the village. There are 110 tourism villages in Bali and 23 tourism villages in Tabanan Regency including ecology village tourism in Nyambu village, Tabanan Regency. The objective of the research is finding out and understanding the community empowerment to support the ecology village tourism of Nyambu and to develop ecology village tourism. This study is descriptive qualitative research. The data collection used in this research were observation, depth interview, and literature study. The research was based on the theory of Community-Based Tourism (CBT) and tourism attraction theory. The findings are the development of the ecology village tourism of Nyambu was initially by the empowerment of the community of Nyambu village by conducting training which can support the development of the ecology village tourism of Nyambu from 2015 to 2017. The roles of stakeholders cannot be neglected in the development of the ecology village tourism of Nyambu then Nyambu village has tourism attractions, such as something to see (going along the rice field, exploring the culture, watching dance performances, and theater), something to do (cycling dan painting) dan something to buy (natural soap and processed eels), though those are not optimally done. Keywords: Community Empowerment, Development, Ecological Tourism Village