Strengthening Java's history as a tool for developing history tourism in the Laweyan tourism village of Surakarta

This paper aims to describe the contribution of Javanese historical packaging about the existence of Laweyan batik campoeng which can be used as a means of attracting tourists to visit Laweyan. The form of this research is descriptive qualitative. The data source in this research is the place of 'Kampoeng batik Laweyan ', the person of the informants namely the Laweyan society who really understand the history of Laweyan and the paper of writing evidences, photographs, authentic pictures of the existence of the old village of Laweyan. Data collection techniques using interview, observation, and document study techniques. The data analysis technique starts from data reduction, data presentation, and drawing conclusions. The analysis results obtained that the history and culture of the Laweyan community is interesting to learn and packaged into a tourist attraction that attracts tourists visiting Laweyan. The conclusion is that packaging and tracing the history of Laweyan is important as an important component that is realized in an attractive tour package. This interesting Laweyan history can be used as a means of attracting tourists to visit Laweyan.