DEVELOPMENT OF CIBUNTU BABAKAN TOFU VILLAGE TOURIST DESTINATIONS BASED ON COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT THROUGH TOURISM AWARENESS TRAINING AND GUIDING ENGLISH

Abstrak

Babakan Village in Bandung City most of the people are craftsmen, processors, and sellers of tofu typical of Bandung City, namely Cibuntu Tofu. This uniqueness is utilized by the community by forming a Tourism Village as a means of education for tourists related to tofu. Currently, the tourist village has begun to be visited by many tourists and even several times foreign tourists come. The results of field observations found various problems in the tourism village, namely the application of sapta pesona as a manifestation of a tourism-aware community, the lack of guidance and communication techniques that are still lacking, and the English language skills are still limited. With these various problems, it is the basis for organizing this Community Service activity to be able to overcome some of these problems. Through this community service activity, training was held on tourism awareness, guidance, and basic English guidance. It is hoped that this training can improve the ability of local resources, especially pokdarwis members who serve as guides, and become a spur for the community to be able to carry out sapta pesona as a manifestation of the Tourism Aware community. This training activity is carried out by theoretical knowledge transfer methods and training is carried out by simulating practice and evaluation using quizzes. This training activity was attended by 15 pokdarwis members who were representatives of the youth, entrepreneurs now, community leaders, and PKK mothers. From the results of a survey conducted to training participants, it was revealed that all the material presented was very interesting and useful for improving skills so that it was easy to apply in guiding activities. Suggestions from participants are expected to hold other trainings so that their tourism knowledge and abilities will increase in the context of developing tourism villages in terms of human resources.