UPAYA MERINTIS DESA WISATA MELALUI PELATIHAN DAN PENDAMPINGAN MASYARAKAT DI DESA CARANGREJO KECAMATAN SAMPUNG KABUPATEN PONOROGO

Abstract

Desa Carangrejo, Kecamatan Sampung, Kabupaten Ponorogo has various tourism potential, such as rice
fields, plantations, mountains, and ancestral graves that can be used as icon in term of developing its
tourism. Bulurejo as one of the hamlets in Desa Carangrejo has its potential as the central of tourism
because the ancestral grave of the villages icon is located there. Besides, Dukuh Bulurejo also
continuously produces crops which becomes superior, such as banana, turmeric, and ginger. The method
used by Internship student of UM 2018 in purpose of making Desa Carangrejo to be tourism village is by
implementing village development assistance. The development stage is done in two ways: 1)
implementing physical readiness, and 2) implementing potential development by providing training and
assistance for communitys empowerment, also independence in developing villages potentials.
Implementation of physical readiness stage is done in the form of giving street name, procurement of
street sign, direction sign leading to ancestral grave, and preparing thirty-tree (33) permanent bins that are
located in some agreed points. Implementation of villages potential development stage is done by
cultivating turmeric and ginger, producing natural soap, utilization banana leaves and bark that was found
and planted in many places but not utilized optimally. Training and assistance programs with the aim of
developing villages potency was done in order to prepare the village to be the tourism village.