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including “The Island of The God”, for its uniqueness influenced by culture and
religion, “The Last Paradise of the World”, “Paradise Island”, “The Island with Thousand
Temples”, “Cultural Tourism”.
1. Sport Tourism
Basically sport activities cannot be separated from other activities as well as
everyday life of people. Sport activities nowadays have become significant need for
people to provide more fit body. Sport will give positive impact to the sport performer
because the movement during various sport activities will provide physical fitness and
spiritual satisfaction to the body. The physical fitness mentioned is a better changing of
physical condition, especially in the heart, lungs, and blood vessels, while spiritual
satisfaction emphasizes
on personal
pleasure. In RI Law No. 3 of 2005, it is
explained that sport is “any systematic
activity to encourage, support and develop physical, spiritual and social potential”.
Based on the theory above, it can be concluded that sport is physical activity
performed by a person or group of people which is programmed, systematic, and
sustained in order to get physical and spiritual fitness. Sport activities performed
regularly and in programmed way can create a person as a whole, feel more comfortable
and peaceful life. This makes nowadays sport becomes part of human life who aware
of the importance of physical fitness and spiritual satisfaction developed in society.
Science Discipline Committee 2000 describes general identification of sport
characteristics as following. 1. Sport is a subsystem play: practice
voluntarily without coercion. 2. Sport
is oriented
in physical
dimensions: the
activity is
a demonstration of physical skill.
3. Sport is a real activity, not an illusion or imagination.
4. Sport, especially competitive type, emphasizes on performance and
achievement aspect that involving an element of struggle, determination,
and surprise factor, as the opposite of speculative factor that performance is
achieved with personal effort. 5. Sport takes place in social and
humanitarian atmosphere, does not emerge disgracing, but solidarity.
6. Sports should lead to efforts of improving
and maintaining
total wellness KDI, 2000.
Modern human
activity has
undergone many changes in progress that is not enough on sports aimed at only physical
fitness, but a recreational sport is also very rapidly developed. Almost in all parts around
the world, included in Indonesia, sport tourism is increasingly advanced so many
sport fields become object and attraction for tourists, especially sports with natural
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facilities such as mountains, lakes, rivers, and oceans.
Sport tourism is tourism activities undertaken by doing a fun sport activity,
without any coercion and is generally done in object tourism area Danasaputra, 2009. It is
also said that the Sport Tourism is one of the tourist activities which is quite rapidly
developed in Indonesia, because it has large area of mountains, oceans, rivers and lakes.
Because each
region has
different geographic characteristics, the development
of sport tourism is very likely to become alternative sport recreation for sport lovers
such as mountain sports climbing, camping, jungle hiking, cycling, tracking, etc., water
sports diving, canoing, snorkeling, surfing, etc. Danasaputra 2009.
According to Fandeli 2001, the type of outdoor sports has its own sensation when
the challenge can end up with success. Doing outdoor sporta today is one tourism
commodity that can make a visitor feels comfortable in a tourist destination. This is
because natural condition is still fresh and cool, besides supported by adequate
infrastructures. The relation between sport and
tourism cannot be separated, because both can provide benefits to each other. Sport
events can be organized in tourism area to provide additional entertainment for tourists,
or otherwise it is only used specifically to attract
local and
foreign tourists
Danasaputra, 2009. Thus, in the end sport is able to trigger a new business such as
recreational entertainment, restaurant, hotel, small business development development of
local accessories, better known of local food and beverage, and ultimately open work
fields. As a product of the sport industry,
sport tourism needs developed management to attract more foreign and local tourists as
consumers. Buyan Lake as an asset of Bali and particularly Buleleng Regency should
have got full attention of the government in programmable and integrated development.
The management should be clinging and planned, this will be able to provide positive
impact for the tourism development and eventually to encourage increase of local
foreign exchange earnings. Danasaputra 2009 explains that the
development of sport tourism can directly provide great advantage to the government
in terms of: 1. Increase
economic sector
surrounding the sport tourism area;
2. Increase potential tourist area; 3. Share information with people
stimulating their
active participation;
4. Increase cooperation between central and local governments in
controlling tourism attraction and object;
5. Develop and
discover new
tourism attraction to enhance existing tourism objects;
6. Increase work opportunities;
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7. Improve products
and local
marketing in all aspects of tourism;
8. Introduce various types of local culture and competitive sports
lovers can be contested or sports attractions.
Bali as a tourist destination is expected to provide benefits to the
government and local people because sport tourism is one favorite activity of local people
or foreign tourists as it does in spare time to get physical and spiritual satisfaction. Hobby
in doing regular, systematic and continuous sports will give physical fitness and spiritual
health for the doer. While on the other side, tourism sector as one of constructive sector
in economy field, if the management is done well and in accordance with the government
program, should be able to provide a major contribution for areal advancement and local
welfare.
2. Overview about Tourism Potential
