ABSTRACT
Cilegon is a city nicknamed the steel town. The city owns many types of tours to improve its tourism attraction. One of them is by making Krakatau Steel as a tourism site. The Krakatau Steel has been visited by many students since it provides a place for education and learning experience for all visiting tourists. It also cannot be separated from the character of the tourists who visit. The visiting student-tourists mostly find that a visit to the industrial location is very attractive. This research aims to assess the characteristics of educational-tourism at the Krakatau Steel. This research was conducted by employing descriptive and survey methods. The findings reveals that the tour of Krakatau Steel is a proper educational-tourism for the reason that it deals with educational programs contained in the tour, as well as the direct involvement of visitors in the industrial site. For example, the visitors are shown the production process. Moreover, the tour of Krakatau Steel usually is opened for student-tourists of various disciplines covering the activities of educational tourism.
