The Development of The Tourist Cibuntu Village, Cibuntu Regency, West Java Based on SWOT Analysis

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.