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Community Service Activities (PKM) have become part of the Tridarma of Higher Education. The Cikoleang Region, Pabuaran Village, West Java, there are houses of worship of different religions and live side by side, but the surrounding communities are still closed and unknown to others. This PKM activity provides insight into how the basic concept of a tourist village, promotion optimization of a tourist village using technology, and making food and drinks welcome and in the future is predicted to be a religious tourism village. The results of this activity are expected to be developed and implemented by local residents, in order to develop their abilities and improve the surrounding economy.Keywords: Tourism Village; Human Resources; Promotion; Religious Tourism Destination

In 2018, Indonesia has a new tourism icon, namely Garuda Wisnu Kencana Statue, which located in Bali, the most famous tourist destination in Indonesia. The presence of this tourism icon is certainly expected to support increasing numbers of tourists to Bali and Indonesia, especially for foreign tourists. One year has passed but there still no tourism improvement from the presence of this tourism icon, there are no major activities that can invite tourists to visit and there is no research on this tourism icon. Therefore, descriptive research was conducted by distributing questionnaires through online media to foreign tourists from five continents in the world to find out whether foreign tourists knew about the presence of the Indonesian tourism icon Garuda Wisnu Kencana Statue. The results of this study show that 87.5% of respondents from 28 countries in various parts of the world did not know about the presence of this new tourism icon, and of course, there was no significant impact resulting from the tourism icon. The low level of knowledge of the presence of tourism icons surely related to the marketing method both carried out by the local tourism government and the central tourism government. Discussion of marketing methods certainly requires further complete research but the results of questionnaires show that according to respondents one of the best marketing media to promote a new tourism icon is social media and the internet/website .

Wide open employment in the tourism industry leads to the urgent needs for ready to work manpower. In the tourism industry, the readiness of the workforce in addition to the operational skills of the work is the ability of foreign language that is widely used globally in the world, in this case is English. Tourism education institutions as tourism human resources factories not only must prepare operational skills, but also English skills which is important to avoid complaints from graduates’ saying that educational institutions do not provide sufficient English supplies. In order to provide sufficient English supplies, student’s English proficiency should be known at this time along with the reason, to know what can improve student’s spirit of learning, because English for Tourism Purposes (ETP) can not be measured only by tests such as TOEFL / TOEFL / IELTS. The results of this study is expected to be a improvement material to improve the quality of every tourism student’s English in order to prepare graduates who are ready to work in a Global environment.Keywords: English for Tourism Purposes, Proficiency, Four Basic Skills