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This study will conduct a study on the attitudes of hotel tourist to renewable energy especially solar PV for hotel accommodation in Surakarta, Indonesia. This research has been carried out in many countries in the world in involving community participation to consider new policies. This research is important to do to obtain valid information by directly involving community participation. This is good for government and hotels use in taking new policies on energy. This study uses a survey method with questionnaire research instrument and emphasizes the problem of responses (feedback) to obtain a broad explanation through the attitudes of hotel tourist to the application of renewable energy in Surakarta. This study uses a quantitative approach with descriptive statistical data analysis and simple random sampling by formula of Slovin to determine the number of samples from the population with an error rate of 5%. This research looks for 336 samples in star hotels from 1 to 5 stars in Surakarta hotels. Visitor attitudes in reducing energy consumption were 74%, visitor attitudes in recognizing RES failures were 40%, visitor attitudes in paying extra for RES installation were 35%, visitors perception of solar PV installation on the roof at 55%, and visitors perceptions of solar PV installation on balconies were 78%.