The Beauty of Islamic Javanese Culture and Art Tourism in Indonesia

Islamic tourism is a new tourist destination in the world today. Utilizing the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) shows that foreign Muslim tourists contribute 126 billion US dollars in 2011. Central Java is one of the provinces in Indonesia which has a lot of potential for islamic culture tourism that can be developed. In the Javanese culture there are islamic values that have not been widely known by the people. And if we want to trace, a lot of islamic values contained in the culture and art of Java. Based on this, the author proposed the idea to create Javanese Arts and Culture Tourism Based Islamic in Central Java. Islamic Javanese Culture and Art Tourism is Islamic tourism in Central Java with tourist object of Javanese culture containing Islamic values not yet known by tourists, especially foreign tourists. With the Islamic Javanese Culture and Art Tourism will provide many benefits, namely the preservation of Javanese arts and culture, business opportunities for people around the tourist attraction and strengthening the Indonesian economy. We use descriptive qualitative methods in the preparation of this scientific paper. Descriptive qualitative method is the method used in composing writing about the condition of natural objects with a qualitative approach to generate descriptive data about the description of the potential of cultural tourism islamic in Central Java. The type of data used in this study is secondary data. Implementation of cultural tourism in islamic-based Central Java requires support from various parties, namely the Central Java Culture and Tourism Agency, MUI, as well as cultural and artists of Central Java. to implement this program, it is necessary to work together with various parties, including the government in this case the Culture and Tourism Office of Central Java and also the community to provide great support.