Developing Educative Tourism Destination in Citarum Riverside, Bandung, West Java-Indonesia

Abstract

This research aims to develop innovation and creativity to the Citarum riverside people. The data was collected by classify the data system through observation, interview, literature research, documents. Based on the questionnaire that had been spread in the first year, it held in the two RW’s from 25 RW’s in the sector 7 of Citarum Riverside. The result was 1) the importance of developing infrastructure as an educative tourism destination, 2) the tourism destination can be like a mini library, exercise hall, and art stage, 3) managing the destination was our responsibility between the Citarum Riverside people and the governors, as well 4) developing of recycling house of handcraft creative industry. Supporting factor of developing creative industry, such as: quality of Citarum riverside’ people, the potency of Citarum Riverside improved through training and monitoring periodically. Meanwhile, there are some difficulties in developing Citarum Riverside such as; less of fund, limited of qualified ingredients and less of marketing facilities that being the subject of this research. . Hopefully, the development of educative tourism destination in Citarum Riverside can be a part of “Deklarasi Gebyar Edukasi 3R Mahasiswa KKN Tematik