Industrial Tourism has great potential can develop rapidly. One of the areas in Indonesia is Batu as developing tourism city in East Java. Batu designated its area as Batu Tourism city by promoting several sectors, namely tourism, agriculture and Small Micro Enterprise. The developing of tourism consists of several factors; government policies, regulation tourism development on Community Based Tourism therefore tourism actors will be lack of information, so that indigenous people have not been able to manage, enjoying the results of the tourism sector. This research tries to answer about (1) The community empowerment in tourism development in Batu (2) What are the inhibited supporting factors for community empowerment tourism development in Batu. The method used on making journal with qualitative method, which is descriptive research tends to use analysis. Data were collected from government agencies, by observing documenting and interviewing informant. Based on the research results, it was found, community empowerment tourism development in Batu has been well-implemented. The RPJMD program, which is translation of the Mayor's vision and mission, supports the increasing of tourism potential in Batu. Community empowerment includes tourism village development strategy in such as potential development, institutional characteristics / revitalization of BUMDES. Supporting factors for community empowerment in tourism development include the existence of village funds are focused not only on infrastructure but also improving the community's economy. The role of community leaders, religious leaders who influence society in a good government system is to determine the direction of policy and governance.

Keywords: Community empowerment; Policy; Tourism village