In Indonesia, Vocational High School (VHS), or generally known as Sekolah Menengah Kejuruan (SMK), is a formal vocational education program which aims to educate and to prepare well-qualified graduates who are capable of attending to all aspects of workspace in accordance with their competences. Furthermore, they are expected to serve as a competent person in business and industry for facing global. In order to achieve these objectives, the government had tried several times to restructure the education system. However, there are constant problems emerged, for example changes in qualification requirements of business and industry bring out a not demand-oriented of the existing vocational education system. Requirements for the qualifications and skills of employees will be higher than at present. Changes in technology and changing work concepts in companies call for cooperation between vocational schools and Industry. This research focuses on the cooperation between learning places namely Vocational High School and Industry in the area of Hotel Management in Indonesia. The main aim of this research is to examine the cooperation activities of selection schools and hotels in four Provinces namely Maluku, Papua, Yogyakarta, Ost Java. To be closely examined and analysed are design of vocational training and education, implementation, financing, organizational structures and personnel development. Another major focus of the research is analysing of national regulations related to cooperation between the learning places. The project carries out an extensive of literature on cooperation in vocational training and education such as definition, objective, intensity, main and relevant components, factors influencing the realization of cooperation of learning places, and international perspective on cooperation between learning places. This research used a qualitative and quantitative approach. Content Analysis was used to get the data about the cooperation of learning places in the Education Law and Regulation of the Republic of Indonesia. Qualitative expert interviews were carried out to get the information about best practice of learning places cooperation from the experts of vocational education. Quantitative questionnaire was used to do the comparative study. The questionnaire was divided into 4 indicator aspects, including industry participation in planning, implementation, finance and organizational structure and human resource development using a Likert Scale. Respondents are teachers of vocational schools and hotel experts in Maluku, Papua, East Java and Yogyakarta Provinces. Furthermore, to compare, especially to find out whether there was a difference between the four provinces in the activities of cooperation between industry and vocational schools on each aspect mentioned above, Kruskal Wallis test was used, while the Mann Whitney test was used to compare two provinces. Welch Test was used to find out the difference in the overall aspects of industry participation for vocational education between the four provinces and the Tukey Test was used to compare two provinces. All tests were carried out with a significant level of alpha 5%. In terms of findings, it has been revealed that there was a significant difference between the activities of cooperation between Industry and Vocational High Schools in Maluku, Papua, East Java and Yogyakarta in terms of planning, implementation, finance and organizational structure and human resource development. The content analysis showed that there are only general formulation of the objectives and characteristics of the cooperation between learning places in education law and regulation, while the clear statements about it emerge in the national framework curriculum. The best practice approaches of the cooperation activities according to the experts of the Indonesian Ministry of Education are based on the new educational framework and the revitalization of the vocational school. The revitalization of the vocational school is an optimization of all related elements of vocational education of secondary level, which aims to strengthen the role of business and other interested parties in vocational training and to improve the quality and competitiveness of vocational school graduates’ qualifications. Based on the results of the research, a feasible concept for cooperation between learning places for Vocational school in Indonesia was developed. While it is conceded that the model developed cannot be implemented by the vocational school and industry in total from beginning, it is recommended that some of the inherent suggestion at micro level be taken up immediately.