Developing Bilingual Website for Poncokusumo Tourism Village

Poncokusumo Tourism Village is one of the popular tourist attractions among tourist. It is located in Malang Regency, East Java at the slope of Mount Semeru. Therefore, the atmosphere of this place is cool and rich with the natural beauty of tourist attractions. Formerly, this tourism village has an official website from previous training. But it cannot be accessed by both the admin of the website and the audience. Whereas this tourism village needs an official website to reach more local and foreign tourists to visit this place. Therefore, the researcher aims to create a bilingual website for this tourism village to help the local and foreign tourists to get the information about Poncokusumo Tourism Village more easily. The website has several types of the content including the general information about this tourism village, the tourist attractions, the tour packages, the local culture, and the social media also the contact of the Pokdarwis Poncokusumo. This research used the research method with four stages including analysis, design, development, and evaluation. At the first stage, the researcher searched for information about Poncokusumo Tourism Village. After that, the researcher decided to create a bilingual website for Poncokusumo Tourism Village and started to create the design of the bilingual website during the second stage. The next stage is development which the process for the researcher to develop the bilingual website starting from writing the contents, translating the Indonesian contents into an English language, implementing the design and the contents of the bilingual website into WordPress platform, and asking for feedback from several experts such as expert of website development about the content and the design of the bilingual website and language expert. After the researcher received feedback from the experts about the bilingual website, then the researcher improved the bilingual website based on the feedback. The researcher added several elements and pictures of the destinations on some pages to make the bilingual website more eye-catching, the researcher also improved the text of the contents based on the feedback from the language expert validator. The last stage is the evaluation stage that the researcher spread the questionnaire about the bilingual website for Poncokusumo Tourism Village to get feedback from local and foreign tourists. Based on the result of the questionnaire from local and foreign tourists, the bilingual website for Poncokusumo Tourism Village is easy to understand both the Indonesian content and the English content of the website. Beside that, the bilingual website helps the local and foreign tourists to get the detailed information because the bilingual website also providing the social media and the contact person of Poncokusumo.