Design of a tourism awareness education module for tourism attraction managers in Agam District, West Sumatra.

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to elaborate on a practical tourism education module for tourism attraction managers in West Sumatra. This research was conducted under the notion of Research and Development (R & D). While the development model used is the ADDIE model, the objective of the research was the manager of tourism attractions. The population of this study was thus all members of the group ‘manager of tourism attractions’ and the purposive sample consisted of twenty people who manage tourism attractions in Tarusan Kamang Lake and four tourism experts. The result of the development of tourism awareness module for tourism attraction managers, showed the effectiveness of the test at the time of implementation and consisted of: 1) the result of observations of student activity which was very good at is 95.38%, 2) the result of the appraisal process of learning the skill module including an effective category that was 94,89%; 3) the average value of learning outcomes of students using the module is 86,00% and at intervals of 81-100 with a very effective interpretation thereof.

Keywords

• Module
• tourism education
• tourism attraction
• manager
• ADDIE model