Development of a Tourism Village Based on the Integration of Language Education and Local Potential (Case Study in Karanganyar Regency, Central Java, Indonesia)

Abstract

The development of Language Education Tourism destinations in Karanganyar Regency is a model that can be used for developing tourism villages in Indonesia. The goal of the research is to discover how language education is able to become a tourist attraction and boost the local economy. The research method is qualitative and uses a case study approach to explore how language education is integrated with local potential to create a model for the development of a tourism village. In a case study, data collection includes various sources, such as observation, interviews, FGDs, audio visual material, documents, and reports. Informants in this study were local communities, village officials, leaders of Isy Karimah Islamic boarding schools, head of tourism village development associations, the young people’s organization (Karang Taruna), souvenir craftsmen, local financial institutions. Data analyzed by interactive analysis. The research results show that the integration of education of three languages (Arabic, English, and Javanese) with local potential (art, culture, agriculture, and stockbreeding) is an important entity in developing the local economy. The integration of the education of these three languages with local potential is found in a number of destinations of tourism villages.