WHAT CAN YOUTH DO ON SMART ONLINE TOURISM?
A problem certainly has a solution to the issues that happen. The situations must be supported by sharpening exploration of the solvent to the problem that becomes the problem. Thus, the theme given above provides a simple, effective, accurate, and up-to-date understanding of what Youth can do to use meaningful impact on other societies.
The author first describes the underlying problem to provide a good point of view. It can also say that this is relevant to entitle described above that Youth can build meaningful resources through their tools such as social media, zoom, Instagram, and YouTube as a specific, measurable, achievable, and relevant in the time of a Corona pandemic-19 (Covid-19).
The impact of Covid-19 has touched us. The pandemic that has hit and faced us worldwide reminds us of what happened in 1918. For example, a flu outbreak that occurred in Spain caused 25 million lives in Spain in the first six months, and in Indonesia, less than six months after Covid-19 hit Indonesia, 10.105 people died. On Thursday (24/9), these numbers include the dead from each day. Every day, 128 people were involved in the death.
Another perspective, due that the pandemic has caused all sectors to become paralyzed, including the tourism sector, like what is currently happening with many casualties. The Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economics provided a statistical explanation on its official page that decreased significantly in 2021. Foreign tourists who visited Indonesia through all entrances in March 2021 totaled 132 957 visits, or the number decreased by 72.73% compared to March 2020, which amounted to 486,155 visits. In addition, the number of foreign tourists in March 2021 at all entrances compared to March 2020 experienced a decline in all nationalities. On the contrary, tourism has been the most significant contributor to foreign exchange, reaching 15 billion US dollars annually.
Opponent to that casualty, the impact of Corona, foreign exchange from this sector dropped drastically by 90 percent as the number of tourists visiting decreased drastically. Apart from being the source of state income, the tourism sector nowadays is also the most expensive job field workers can experience, such as street vendors. They can support their families by selling in destination areas through this sector. Nevertheless, an ability to speak well and good marketing indirectly supports them more freely in obtaining sustenance covers.
Therefore, we need innovation and a new strategy to find a solution to cope with this situation. One of the innovations and strategies is the online approach. It was also directly supported by Sandiaga Salahuddin Uno as Indonesia's ministry of creative tourism. It was relevant to what happened at the current time.
The government's commitment to encouraging the tourism sector was a light for this online tourism. To make it clear to this situation. Now, let us look at what happened in each term of this issue.
Online Tourism
Online tourism is one way to explore many well-known destinations during the pandemic. It is precious to this phenomenon, and all people worldwide have moved to online activity, especially in the tourism sector. To support what is being discussed, related to the journal also mentioned the same opinion about this problem.
Rakesh Belwal stated that online tourism is the world's largest civilian industry and accounts for nearly fourteen percent of the world's GDP (David J. Saunders: 2002). Its growth, economic significance, and potential are phenomenal globally, yet it has yet to be exploited to its maximum capacity. Tourism contributes immensely to earnings and employment across nations as a quasi-manufacturing activity. It is set to change business propositions in the manufacturing and services sectors directly or indirectly.
Widely, online tourism, as its natural result, has emerged to occupy a central place in tourism marketing. Due to its potential, online tourism has become a buzzword from almost every tongue that speaks of tourism. Thus, we see how potential young people or a community strengthens this chance to view tourism through the online experience.
Online Tourism Development
As discussed earlier by the author, we can start by identifying current development trends to make it more realistic for students and young people to use technology. Social media and e-tourism can be used as effectively by taking several costs into account, such as the average growth of the tourism industry, whether large-scale tourism, slow development, or partial development, tourism sector in the national economy, reference to national, regional, and local development plans are policies formulated in the same way as other industries, or do they have different policies? Therefore, we can take practical actions by implementing social media platforms such as Instagram and Zoom, or even though youtube.
In various places and communities, social networks Instagram and Zoom are the most widely used platforms worldwide, particularly in Indonesia. We can take advantage of this by doing a simple thing like online travel.
So, how can we use Instagram to promote this journey? This Instagram platform can be used to list pages and promote them before redirecting to the Zoom platform for virtual tours. So that visitors can learn everything about a destination with the assistance of a tour guide provided by the committee or Youth, interested students who have already built it.
Indeed, it would seem pointless and stupid, but apart from our independence as young people, we can also be in a position to deal with the current Coronavirus pandemic. Most relevantly, this small thing can generate a large amount of profit for users and administrators because it involves a lot of people (the community) and is valuable. Sure, what are the advantages for the government and society-wide? The impact of the knowledge source. Many of them have gained more extensive information on local tourist destinations as a means of regional promotion and promoting culture, sports events, and culinary arts, particularly on this platform. As a result, local potential can be used to promote this country.
Tourism Trends
We see that everything has changed to be fully online. For instance, schooling activity has changed to online learning. People do their job by working from home. Meanwhile, online tourism will be included in using thought profit for their business. Online tourism trends that happened today are actual and have good support as well. It proves that two previous decades have witnessed a massive increase in pleasure travelers. If we more analyzed, a new tourism trend today shows excellent improvement. For example, the industry is more professionally organized with a faster transportation mode, efficient connectivity system, and newer and far more attractive destinations.
In that words, online tourism is a new place of travel product distribution where a supplier or service provider offers products or services mainly through the Internet to a group of customers, irrespective of their physical location (Singh, 2003). Online tourism equips a tourist, tour operator, or travel agent for convenient exchanges using an electronic medium or smartphone.
What Has To Be Done as Youth Generation?
Briefly, by the time of this movement era, the Internet has successfully touched tourism online to utilize modern technology and meaning. It gives light to e-marketing to seek customers. Online tourism is one way to give such a natural outcome of this online boom in the last two decades. The concept has aimed much attention among modern approaches in a business organization. It should remind us to do more action using the online tool. We can involve people through this method with all facilities and acknowledgment that we have as a young generation based on the theme given previously should apply by a specific action in giving a short description for each point below.
The first is Specific. These means have a unique application, bearing, or reference, specifying, explicit, or definite to state one's specific purpose. In this case problem, we need to dive into more detail about what we face. The impact of Covid-19 has been outstanding in how we struggle to make an innovative movement toward online approaches such as online tourism. The author believes that the young generation can make the chance by doing this solution. The second is Measurable. What the author wanted to say is measurable. It is specific statements expressing the desired qualities of essential services and expected experience results. In this program, the desired outcomes are intended behavior, knowledge, or skill changes that should result from the program or activities. Objectives should state who is involved, such as students or even the young generation whose behaviors, knowledge, or skills change due to the program. Tool or device surveys and tests measure progress, and data from other sources will measure the expected changes. Proficiency level: Identify the criteria for success. When will the outcome occur, and how the user identifies the time frame for success?
Third, Achievable. Covid-19 came in March 2020, and now we are still determining when this issue will end. Everyone needs to take a vacation to decrease their stress. Therefore, it needs innovation to bring back our valuable economy through the tourism sector. In addition, we can improve this with technical support by using online tours to make tourists feel like they are in the location. This sub-term can achieve because of the competence of the young generation today.
Fourth is Relevant, the author has described the point of view, and these problems are relevant. The pandemic has changed our life. Despite the pandemic, many tourists cannot go overseas to find a comfortable place. So, the alternative we can do right now is to provide and make online tourism with many descriptions such as uniqueness, culture, and facilities. Moreover, in many research, applying online tourism can also be a solution for other people worldwide who want to make their visit.
Moreover, lastly is Time-based. It is necessary since we do not know when the pandemic will end. Therefore, we need a hypothesis to make it simple and a measurable program soon. Online tourism is a way to facilitate meaningful experiences without visitors directly coming to visit their destination. At least, they have well-known about the objective first before they decide to visit. Hence, this must be a time-based plan to provide a good tool for visitors who want to explore and know more about the location.
To sum up, technology today makes uniqueness. Without us knowing it, the Tourism sector is very profitable in our daily lives. Online tourism's growth, awareness, and importance are increasingly becoming a trend. We must take advantage of this technology to shape the future. Logically, when the tourism industry grows very fast. Online tourism orientation can be the correct factor for most stakeholders to seek particular profit challenges, reservations, and hiccups concerning the access, adoption, growth, and implementation of online technology in tourism. However, these should act as deterring the vices, not the virtues. It is very much in our hands now to overcome the weaknesses to make optimum use of the technology by adding massive explanations inside online tourism. That is why what Youth can do now is to provide a solution and action by giving an intelligent approach. The author hopes that those strategies will bring a better solution to decrease our lives matter by optimizing the benefits of technology in developing tourism.