Infrastructure development strategy based on the accessibility to tourism location (case study of Bali Province-Indonesia)

Abstract

As one of the famous tourist destinations in Indonesia, Bali has many places or tourist areas that can be visited. Economic of Bali Province was highly dependent on tourism industry. The development and spatial distribution of the tourism locations were not evenly distributed. This has resulted in the development and economic disparities between regencies. This is a challenge on how to develop a more balanced economic development between regencies. One way to assess the spatial distribution of tourism development is by evaluating the accessibility to tourism location. This study aims to analyze the accessibilities to tourism location and propose the infrastructure development strategy to improve the accessibility of the regencies with low accessibility values. Accessibility was measured based on travel distance and time. The spatial distribution of the accessibility value was measured based on the Z-score. The results indicate that the highest level of accessibility was found in Denpasar city. On the other hand, low accessibility values were found in Jembrana, Tabanan, Buleleng, and Karangasem regencies. Several solutions were proposed to increase accessibility such as road widening, building toll road, building shortcuts, and railroad development.