The Factors Affecting PBI Students’ Decision to Participate in Edu-tour

Edu-tour is a program where participants take a part of touring to a certain place in a group with the aim of gaining experience directly related to the location visited, and more. However, the students have their own reasons that affecting their decision to participate in Edu-tour.Therefore, thisresearchfocus on investigating the factor that affecting the decision of students in participating in Edu-tour.Hence, this research aims to find out the factors encouraging PBI students’decision to participate in Edu-tour program, and to identify the benefits of participating inEdu-tour program.In this research, the researcher usedpurposive samplingtechnique. Therefore, the researcher only selected 10 participantsfrom 2019 PBI Edu-Tour.As the result, gaining more experience seems to be the most influential factor and plays important role for students to participate Edu-tour since most of the respondents allude getting new experience either in the factors and the benefits. The researcher expects that by conducting this study, the awareness in participating Edu-tour can increase since it has many benefits. Edu-tour program is a good potential program for English Teaching Department because it can established the relationship between universities.