ANALYSIS OF ART CULTURE POTENTIAL AND TOURISM VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT IN GEGESIK KULON VILLAGE, CIREBON REGENCY

Abstract

Gegesik Kulon tourism village, Cirebon Regency, West Java, is included in the list of 50  the 2021 Indonesian Tourism Village Award (ADWI) event. The village focuses on  Tourism development as one of the efforts to revive the economy  They are in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. Gegesik Kulon tourist village is known to have many  potential and the community is still very much preserving the arts and culture. Where  the majority of the villagers there work as farmers. Others work  as artists and entrepreneurs. In the village that is usually called the Artist's Village  many used artistic and cultural heritage so that it is very suitable  as a tourist destination for arts and culture education. They are guided by 5 branches  art which is also offered as a tourist attraction in Gegesik Kulon Village. Start  of fine arts in the form of wood carving, wayang puppets, mask carving, drum crafts, and so on  glass painting. This research activity is a field study by conducting observations and interviews on the Potential of Cultural Arts and Tourism Village Development in Gegesik Kulon Village, Cirebon Regency. Where this Gegesik Village holds a lot of tourism potential which during this pandemic can also be used in the future as a work area for the surrounding community. However, the limited presentation of information to tourists makes some local cultural tourism sectors untouched by tourists. Therefore, a mapping of superior cultural tourism objects is made to be implemented into a system that can provide information in the form of locations and descriptions for these cultural attractions.