SOCIALIZATION OF RELIGIOUS TOURISM BASED TOURISM WITH THE KELANTAN COMMUNITY AT GRAND PERMATA HATI, BANDA ACEH CITY

Abstract

The purpose of this community service is to broaden the knowledge about religious tourism in Banda Aceh with the Kelantan Community. communities related to the development of tourist villages, and increase public awareness of the importance of managing tourist villages. The outputs obtained from this community service activity include (1) participants can increase their knowledge and insight about tourism in Banda Aceh City, the importance of managing religious-based tourism in Banda Aceh City from various tourist attractions that are spread out. (2) From the results of the socialization, the Kelantan community will later be able to understand and increase their knowledge about religious tourism in Banda Aceh and about the purpose of the socialization to introduce religious-based tourism in Banda Aceh City and which has tourist attractions and this socialization ended with a question and answer session, several questions were obtained from participants and the community including: (a) What is the role of religious tourism destinations in promoting Islamic culture in Banda Aceh? (b) What are the challenges faced by local business actors in supporting religious tourism? And what is the strategy in managing tourism to be known more widely?

Keywords: Religious Tourism, Tourism.