PERAN INSTITUSI PENDIDIKAN TINGGI BAGI KAPASITAS KOMUNITAS DESA CIBUNTU DALAM PENGEMBANGAN PARIWISATA BERBASIS MASYARAKAT

Abstract

The success of tourism development at the village or local level depends on the capacity of the local community. In the process of development, local communities are needed to involve external parties who are able to give positive contribution to local communities. Beside as a beneficiary and stakeholders, the community is also one of the participants that needs to involve as users of educational services circle. Community is one of scope of general training in higher education. The purpose of this article is to describe the role of higher education institution for community capacity of the Cibuntu Village in Kuningan Regency-Westjava Province. Cibuntu Village is used as a location research in this article because of their success be a Village Tourism by managing and repairing a used sand excavation to be a wonderful attraction tourism, put up Cibuntu Village get some awards are both national or international award level. In the development process there are a high role of higher education institution. The method used in this study is qualitative with the type of descriptive approach. The findings show that the higher education institution has some important roles for the Cibuntu Capacity Community in developing tourism based on communities by raising an awareness, giving an information, and training.