Abstract
This paper aims to clarify the progress and evaluate the current conditions of rural tourism initiatives with concern on the relation between cultural landscape and village tour activity. The result are as follows : 1) In 2010, there existed 9 village tours routes in which 10 villages around the Borobudur Temple were involved ;2) The process of rural tourism initiatives became clarified, 4 types of beginning stage are found ;3) Local guides already took part in initiating village tour in the 90s, but the rural tourism initiatives mostly started to prevail after 2003 ;4)The villages' attractiveness and potentials used for rural tourism are part of landscape elements.
In addition, rural tourism initiatives in Borobudur Sub-district are the result of collaboration between villagers, local NPOs and tourist guides. In this way, rural tourism initiatives in each village are different in term of progress and conditions, but each village has the community initiative.
