WISATA: GAYA HIDUP BARU ELITE BUMIPUTERA DI JAWA TAHUN 1920 SAMPAI 1930-AN

Tourism lately promoted by government is not a new thing. In 1920 to 1930s, when towns have had enough facilities and tourism objects have been opened, many people attracted to do tourism activities. Indigenous elite or priyayi was a social class who often did tourism activities. This research aims to describe Javanese elite�s lifestyle to respond the massive internalization of western culture in Java towns in 1920 to 1930s by their tourism activities. It employs historical method, consist of topic selection, heuristic, verification, interpretation, and historiography. It uses non oral primary resources and secondary resources such as books, articles, biography, and etc. Result of the research is that many non economical reasons pushed priyayi to do tourism activities. They accessed wider tourism activities compared to ordinary people. They did both of old and new kind of tourism, and sometimes they combined them. Priyayi always show their status by the attributes they used. This research also pictured that by their same wealthy level, priyayi in gubernemen towns adopted more western tourism compared to priyayi in kingdom towns did