Material Design for Teaching to Improve English Communication Competencies for Tourism Industry Players to Increase the Volume of Tourist Visits in Indonesia

Abstract

Tourism is a mainstay of foreign exchange earners in a number of countries, both developed countries and developing countries including Indonesia. Based on data on tourist visits that travel to Indonesia does not show a significant increase from year to year, on the other hand the attraction of Indonesian culture and nature is no less compared to the culture and nature of other countries in the world. Tourists who visit Indonesia with different destinations, they certainly need information on what was visited, of course, tourism industry players in Indonesia will become and advise as the frontline to say the information needed by tourists.The general objective of this study was to produce a model for improving English communication skills for Indonesian tourism industry players to increase the volume of tourist visits to Indonesia to be achieved at the end of the study (in 2020) and specific objectives are (1) produce prototypes of learning needs to improve communication skills using English.This study will use the R n D method, namely the ADDIE approach (Analyze-Design-Develop-Implement-Evaluate) by Maribe 2010 and designed by Pongsapan 2016.

Keywords. Material design in English, Communication Ability, Tourism industry players