Government Strategy to Recover the Tourism Sector Affected by the Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic hit the world including Indonesia, in a period of approximately 2 years, pandemic had negative impact. One of the businesses that was greatly affected was the tourism sector in Indonesian provinces, some were still able to survive, but some were not, due to sluggish demand for the tourism sector, the implementation of the PPKM (Implementation of Community Activity Restrictions) policy, prohibiting crowds, and even being prohibited from leaving the house if it's not an emergency, of course all of that has impact on the wheels of the economy temporarily, but the cost of living must still run. This study analyzes secondary data from news, books, scientific journals and data published by government. The point of the finding is that pandemic has had major impact on tourism sector. Because during the pandemic, many activities were online, thus reducing the number of tourist visits and that had impact on incoming income. Because changes in the way of transactions can reduce customer interest, inflation reduces people's purchasing power, and number of unemployed increases because many businesses are not operational, this causes economy to decline. The government must have best strategy to stabilize the wheels of the economy, indeed, it is not easy, there must be a big struggle and hard effort to rise, it can be through the policies & regulations that are enforced, the spirit of fighting, supporting each other according to each other's roles & responsibilities, so that the economy recovered.

Statistical analysis of the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on the small and large-scale tourism sectors in developing countries

“…Mohammad Soliman et al, 2023 examine the influence of health consciousness and satisfaction on visitors’ willingness towards robot-delivered tourism and hospitality services usage and the impact of the destination healthcare system and satisfaction on loyalty intentions. Several steps must be prepared by the ministry of tourism and creative economy (kemenparekraf) for national tourism which has decreased due to the small number of visits, so that it can seek economic recovery, especially in the tourism sector, Apriyanti et al, 2023 hoped that they will be able to survive the pandemic by increasing their ability to adapt and innovate and comply with health protocols, and the support of all parties by taking part in recovery efforts, can encourage the Indonesian tourism sector to rise and recover again. Tafadzwa Prasenjit Kumar et al, 2022 attempt to analyse the scope of modifying the destination management system concerning the recovery plan suggested by UNWTO on the global tourism crisis to rebuild the destination economy as sustainable and resilient to combat future challenges.…”

“…Tourist arrivals are expected to drop by 74% in 2020 compared to 2019 according to the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO). The repercussions have been particularly severe for many developing nations in the Asia–Pacific and Western Hemisphere, particularly tiny island states (Apriyanti, 2023 ). Tourism was a huge business before the epidemic, accounting for more than 10% of the worldwide GDP (Spenceley et al, 2021 ).…”

Agro-Tourism Potential to Support Sustainable Tourism in Pancasari Village

“…The contribution of tourism to the Balinese economy is quite significant. This means that the tourism sector is a leading sector that boosts the wheels of the Balinese economy (Apriyanti, 2023;Sugiantari et al, 2021). This was revealed by Bac et al (2015) who stated that one of the industries in the Province of Bali that was able to have a positive impact on economic development (± 75%) was the tourism industry.…”