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Batang is one of districts in Central Java which has tourism in the north coast of Java. This will have a positive impact for that town. Therefore, tourism gets the main attention in developing this town. This study aimed to describe how validation of Rural Tourism Manual Book based on the experts. The research design used in this research was Research and Development based on Borg and Gall (1983). The instrument of this research was validation form. The finding of the research showed the validation of this manual book was divided from three perspectives. Those were design cover, content and language structure.Based on the experts,the use of design cover was identified into Good with the score of this was 4. It means that the cover has fulfilled the standard and can be published. The use of content was Good with the average score was 4. It means that each sub discussion has detail explanation. The use of language structure was Good with the score of 4. It means that the use of vocabularies have given clear explanation, so can avoid ambiguity.