Abstract:
The aim of this research is to determine the response of visitors to the randai art attraction at the Tourism Village Koto Sentajo and to determine the readiness of the community to make randai art as a tourism attraction.
The method used in this research is descriptive method. According to Kriyantono (2006:59), descriptive is used to illustrate (describe) the population, the type focus from this research is the behavior that was going on (what exist at the moment) and consists of one variable. In this research the authors use Ordinal Scale data measurement technique, while the range used is Likert Scale, this scale used to measure a person's attitude about an object.
This research identified two major problems, the visitors response to the tourism attraction and the readiness of community to make randai art as a tourism attraction. So that, in this research author were able to determine the response the visitors by distributing questionnaires and answer process the data from respondent.
In this research has the conclusion based from the respondent response of the randai art attraction, respondents gave responses that the randai show is interesting, the readiness of the community to make randai art as a tourism attraction, the community respond is ready to make the randai show as a tourism attraction. These results are consistent with the summary of responses to questionnaires. While the author's suggestion to randai group players should be more varied storylines such as folklore, economy, society, and the latest news in the present, and semi-permanent stage that used in this show should be change to permanent, and the society more participate to create souviner that become the characterize of Kuantan Singingi District.
