Educational tourism can be built as a bridge between society and the Islamic
Boarding School. It’s also can improve a new entrepreneurship model in Islamic
Boarding School. The study used a quantitative approach. The population was about
387 students who were involved as a population in the study. But only 196 people
as a sample. The sampling technique is simple random sampling. The data collection
technique was the psychology scale—data analysis technique with a Pearson correlation
statistical model. This study found that: (1) the distribution of mean and percentage of
educational tourism perception had not been developed or low; (2) the distribution of
min and portion of self-fulfillment of students was high; (3) there was an effect between
students’ perception about education tourism and their self-fulfillment.
Keywords: educational tourism perception; self-fulfillment; Islamic boarding school