Indonesian tourism profile a year after the COVID-19 pandemic

Abstract

Tourism is one of the most important sectors in Indonesia. However, since the COVID-19 pandemic, tourism industries has declined significantly. Restrictions on mobility and activities in public places affect the tourism sector. One of them can be seen from the hotel room occupancy rate (ROR). ROR in Indonesia experienced a significant decline in mid-2020, since the spread of COVID-19 was confirmed in Indonesia. Until the end of 2020, Indonesia’s ROR seems to have increased, but still cannot fully recover as before the pandemic. It’s been a year since the first COVID-19 case in Indonesia. Various policies have been implemented by the central and regional governments in dealing with this pandemic. To find out how much ROR has improved in 2021, this paper discusses the analysis of national and provinces level ROR in January 2020-June 2021 from BPS survey and big data. These two data are compared to see how well the ROR generated by big data represents the official ROR from the BPS survey. The result from big data analysis show that majority of provinces have not experienced significant ROR improvements in 2021. The result is in line with ROR from the BPS survey, as well as the demand pattern shown from the google trends data.