ABSTRACT

Creative Tourism offers opportunities to the tourists to develop their creative potencies through an active participation, and digging the learning-by-doing experiences, which are the characteristics of Creative Tourism. Tourists gain the amusement and experience from the chosen activities they had taken. The challenge was, how to build the interaction and communication effectively thus the tourists would feel involved and experience the amusement during the performance. This research aims to describe how the Saung Angklung Udjo design the involvement of the tourists in their performances, and share the cultural knowledge transfer. The research method implemented in this paper is analytical descriptive with qualitative approach, whilst the method of data collection done by field observation and literature studies. The results showed that the concept of simple hand signs and good communication delivered by the Angklung Conductor had been attracted the tourists and got their involvement easily. The tourists were asked to play the Angklung instrument together, using the Kodály method. This method met and brought the enjoyable experience for the tourists.