Abstract:
The Cibuntu village is one of the beautiful village of Kuningan District,West Java. Cibuntu village is
located on the Southern city of Cirebon and Eastern part of the province of West Java with a total
area of 274.651 ha and a population of 978 capita. This article presents the SWOT to analysis the
tourism development in Cibuntu rural tourism. That can be used as a reference for the local
government authorities to design tourism development in Cibuntu rural tourism. Tourism Village is
a tourist activity that utilizes natural resources or cultural resources originals. This research
focuses on sustainable development of the rural areas in Cibuntu village, the internal factors and
the external factors. The objective of the present research is to identify and examine the effects of
expansion of tourism on sustainable development of the rural areas in terms of economy, societyculture
ecology and institution. The result show that Cibuntu village was expected to be a rural
village for tourist destination, it has a natural potential because situated at the foothills of Ciremai
mountain, it has a natural outcome in the form of vegetables and fruits and also has a historic relic
sites stone, and also its traditional culinary tourism.
