The Role of Using Gadgets in Facing the Existence of Information Systems in the Tourism Village Community in Cidadap Village Using TAM (Technology Acceptance Model)

Abstract

Indonesia is one of the countries crossed by the “ringoffire”, the positive impact of the regionis to make the land fertile so that most of the regions in Indonesia are used as tourist attractions. Cidadap Village is in Campaka District, Cianjur Regency, which has the concept tofa tourist village. That is locate don anarea of 969,699 Ha with adescription of the potential of Natural Resources that can be used as tourist attractions, namely anarea of 79 Ha, 25 Ha of Forest, 554,559 Ha of dryland, 6 rivers and 8 Fruit Springs. While the total population of approximately 5811 people who have an educational background fromelementary schools to tertiary institutionsis approximately 2715 people or about 47% of the community who have an educational background. Inapplying the concept to the Tourism Village, ofcourse the role of technology is very important tin this case is the use of gadgets to provide information to the wider community to find out this potential. But be fore implementing information system technology, it is of course necessary to know in advance how ready the community is in using gadgets in the management of the tourist village. To measure how big the role of the Cidadap Village community is in the use of gadgets to information systems using the TAM (Technology Acceptance Model) model by forming constructs according to the model so as to create a hypothesis that is adapted to the conditions of the community.