THE IMPACT OF TOURISM TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY AND THE CHANGE OF ARCHITECTURE

Rachmat Budihardjo, Rumiati R.Tobing, Antariksa

Abstract: Bali as main tourist destination in Indonesia has its attraction in customs, arts, culture, and nature. The efforts to make the culture of Bali (including its architecture) to be tourism commodity has been started since colonial time through “Baliseering”,and continued in the era of New Order with “Tourism-Culture”and recently conducted in the twenty first century with “Ajeg Bali”. At this present, it cannot be denied that the welfare of the society in Bali including the relativesof “Puri” mainly rely on tourism. Puri is the palace and the center of government during the era of kingdom in Bali. Up to this present, puri still has essential and urgent role towards the society since 1967, Puri Anyar Kerambitan in Tabanan has conducted tourism activities such as royal wedding, royal dinner, art performance & exhibition,guesthouseand many others. This condition resulted on the sustainability and changes of architecture of puri as heritage of architecture from the past in terms of function, lay out, and shape of the building. This research is designed with qualitative method with the approach of case study. It will examine about the effort to maintain the existence of puri in present time and in the future as factual and interesting issue for the development of local and national architectural science especially in relation to social and cultural development of Bali society. In a wider extent, this research can be the entry point for the development of traditional architecture in Indonesia by considering the diversity of social and cultural aspect of ethnical community in Indonesia

Keywords: tourism, sustainability and change, architecture, puri

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2016.0508045