Abstract:
Community empowerment becomes effective when the community responds to the
activities carried out in empowerment. This service activity is a form of community empowerment
in the tourism sector with a series of socialization, training, and mentoring activities. The targets
of this empowerment are community groups such as youth organizations, tourism awareness
groups, and tourism observer groups whose members come from the local community. This activity
started with a half day FGD to identify their needs. Based on FGD data, the results of the analysis
show that the community needs socialization about tourism perspectives, training is needed
related to tourism potential mapping, tourism object management, supporting facilities and
infrastructure management and guest management. To strengthen the training, the community
also needs assistance from professionals and professional institutions such as professional guides
under the Indonesian Tour Guide Association (HPI), Tourism Village Association (ASIDEWI),
Indonesian Archipelago Tourism Village (DEWISNU) regarding the management of local tourism
potential. In the implementation of socialization, the community was presented with material
about the urgency of tourism to improve their economy. The Alla Village community has all of these
potentials, both natural potential, cultural potential, and garden potential. All require
management by skilled, knowledgeable and professional local people. The training activity was
continued with mapping and identifying tourism potential and found many locations that could be
managed professionally. This PKM recommends advanced training to explore more deeply the local
potential and the potential of local human resources