Utilization Of Virtual Tours as An Effort to Improve the Indonesian Tourism Sector in The New Normal Era

Abstract

The tourism and creative economy sectors in Indonesia have been heavily affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. The number of foreign tourists entering Indonesia has decreased drastically. This encourages technological innovation in creating a digital platform as a step to increase tourism attraction data in Indonesia, one of which is through Virtual Tours to advance the Indonesian tourism sector. The purpose of this research is to systematically examine the virtual tour of the tourism sector. The research method uses a qualitative research approach with research methods based on descriptive literature review by analyzing using the Publish or Perish application and VOS Viewer. Both are applications used to conduct bibliographic research. The results show that between the virtual tour variables and the tourism sector from 2010 to 2022 based on the disbursement of Scholar, there are 420 papers, this is indeed a large number of papers from each of these variables, it's just that the relationship between tourism, virtual tours, pandemics and covid just a little, and the relationship between these variables is very reliable for research. Based on the results of the analysis, it is shown that in this new normal era, virtual tours as one of the promotional media to increase the attractiveness of virtual tour places are better presented in the form of images, videos, even more interestingly presented in 3 dimensions. tourist attraction.