Balinese Traditional Landscape in Heritage Places: Its Roles and Challenges for Tourism Development

This Balinese traditional landscape has an important role for tourism development in Denpasar City, as one most growing city in Bali Province. Denpasar City faces land use change from agriculture to other functions such as settlement, commercial and business area during the last five years. Traditionally, Balinese traditional landscape consists of several elements that has functions to enhance the beauty of environment, health as well as improve economic of the city. There are natah, telajakan, lebuh, cemetery, melasti precinct, temple boundary, alun-alun green open space and cemetery. Denpasar City has many heritages including tangible and intangible that have been inherited since long time ago. Along with increasing development of technology and globalization that affect people to live in modern way that has resulted less concern in implementation of traditional values in landscape of built environment and heritage places. The research aims to seek how far Balinese people implements traditional landscape and its challenges in heritage places for tourism development purposes. Case study is conducted through observation in some heritage places that are still exist in Denpasar City as a cultural city. The observation investigates how far the traditional values of Balinese landscape have been adopts in heritage places. The research recommend that awareness of community to conserve traditional norms and values of traditional landscape to create identity of the city especially in the heritage places for tourism development in Denpasar City. Keywords—Balinese traditional landscape heritage, roles and challenges, tourism development)