Impact Assessment of Pandemic Covid-19 on Four Typologies of Tourism Villages in The Special Region of Yogyakarta
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E-Journal of Tourism Vol.10. No.2. (2023): 207-218
Impact Assessment of Pandemic Covid-19 on Four Typologies of Tourism Villages in The Special Region of Yogyakarta
Shinta Permana Putri*
Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Sains and Technology, Universitas Terbuka
*Corresponding Author: [email protected]
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24922/eot.v10i2.107057
Article Info
Submitted:
September 8th 2023
Accepted:
September 20th 2023
Published:
September 30th 2023
Abstract
The pandemic has caused dramatic changes in the tourism sector globally including tourist villages. This study aims to identify the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on four typologies of tourist villages in DIY, both positively and negatively. This research is qualitative research. Data was collected through interviews with the head of the tourist village. Content analysis is an analytical technique used in this study. The results of the study show that the COVID-19 pandemic does not always have a detrimental impact but also creates opportunities for tourism village communities to make sustainable progress. The positive impact of Covid-19 on tourist villages can be seen in terms of finance, environment, social cohesion, youth participation, product innovation, management/regulation changes, facilities, networking, and increasing technology use. Even so, Covid-19 still leaves new challenges for tourist villages to face a new era of post-pandemic tourism. These results certainly have implications for the practice of developing tourist villages in DIY in the future.
Keywords: tourism village; covid-19; opportunity; innovation; sustainable.
INTRODUCTION
Background
The pandemic has caused dramatic changes in the tourism sector globally (Everingham & Chassagne, 2020; Jeon & Yang, 2021). Covid-19 is known to have caused the tourism industry to experience dormancy, tourism actors lose income, switch to other sectors and look for other alternative jobs (Kristiana et al., 2021). There are many negative impacts that have been caused by Covid-19. This impact is not only felt by large-scale tourism but also in the scope of local tourism such as tourist villages. The existence of travel
restrictions and social distancing to reduce the spread of covid-19 has had a serious impact on tourism and the communities. This condition certainly has an impact on the collapse of the local economy (Sann et al., 2023).
The most significant negative impact felt from the Covid-19 pandemic is the reduction in visitors which has an impact on the financial condition of the tourist village (Damanik et al., 2022). This impact is felt especially by people who depend on tourist villages for their economic activities (Parwata et al., 2022). This reduced number of visitors has serious consequences for the sustainability of tourism
villages. With their income significantly reduced, this condition makes facilities neglected, marketing and partnership efforts stop, institutional activities are greatly reduced, and the total closure of tourism services (Damanik et al., 2022).
On the other hand, the Covid-19 pandemic has also had a positive impact (Movono & Scheyvens, 2022). Many innovations in product diversification or alternative tourism activities have emerged during the pandemic (Damanik et al., 2022; Jeon & Yang, 2021; Kristiana et al., 2021; Panzer-Krause, 2022; Parwata et al., 2022; Rogerson et al., 2021). In addition, the existence of this pandemic has prompted a change in people's mindset regarding the importance of cleanliness and environmental sustainability for the sustainability of tourist villages (Candia & Pirlone, 2022; Damanik et al., 2022; Everingham & Chas-sagne, 2020). The community has also felt a change in mindset regarding the importance of reserve funds and also the importance of using technology during a crisis (Alghamdi & Alghamdi, 2022; Damanik et al., 2022; Parwata et al., 2022). The pandemic is also a moment for the natural environment to recover (Hakim, 2020). Another impact is increasing society's adaptability in times of crisis, for example by changing work systems or worker rotation (Damanik et al., 2022). In addition, stronger social cohesion and increased involvement among tourism village communities are also other positive impacts (Everingham & Chassagne, 2020; Movono & Scheyvens, 2022).
The Covid-19 pandemic has ultimately created new opportunities and challenges for tourist villages. This challenge, namely the Covid-19 pandemic, has apparently also influenced changes in tourist behavior in choosing tourist destinations (Everingham & Chassagne, 2020; Jeon & Yang, 2021; NZIER, 2020; Seal & Prem-alatha, 2022). The choice of tourist destination is greatly influenced by the level of safety and cleanliness (Damanik et al., 2022; Jeon & Yang, 2021; Seal &
Premalatha, 2022). This condition will certainly have implications for the direction of the tourism industry, including tourist villages. Tourism is currently starting to shift towards sustainable tourism compared to mass tourism (Hakim, 2020).
In realizing this, the role of partners and the younger generation is very important (Kurniasih et al., 2022; McCartney et al., 2022; Panzer-Krause, 2022; Robina-Ramírez et al., 2022). The Covid-19 pandemic is the most appropriate time to make community economic progress more sustainable (Candia & Pirlone, 2022; Evering-ham & Chassagne, 2020). This pandemic is also an important moment for tourism to think about building resilience and recovery in the future (Kristiana et al., 2021; Rogerson et al., 2021; Zhang et al., 2020). In the end, the biggest challenge that tourist villages must face is restoring visitor trust (Gowreesunkar et al., 2022). Thus, the COVID-19 pandemic highlights that society still faces various unpredictable risks in the future. However, these risks also create opportunities for communities to make progress (Zhang et al., 2020).
In Indonesia, tourist villages have a strategic role in improving the local economy. The Yogyakarta city is one of the cities in Indonesia which is known for its diversity of tourist villages. In its development, there are four typologies of tourist villages that have developed in Indonesia. This typology includes independent tourism villages, advanced tourism villages, developing tourism villages and pilot tourism villages. These four typologies describe different stages of development of tourist villages. To date, there have been 14 tourist villages designated as independent tourist villages in the Special Region of Yogyakarta. However, the COVID-19 outbreak has affected the tourism sector both positively and negatively (Damanik et al., 2022; Hakim, 2020; Parwata et al., 2022). There have been many previous studies that discussed the adverse effects of Covid-19 on tourist villages. However, there is not much research that discusses these two e-ISSN 2407-392X. p-ISSN 2541-0857
impacts, especially by comprehensively comparing four tourist village typologies in DIY. Thus, this research aims to identify the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on four typologies of tourist villages in DIY, both positive and negative.
LITERATURE REVIEW
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on tourist villages can be viewed from two different sides. On the one hand, the Covid-19 pandemic has brought significant losses, but on the other hand, there are many positive lessons that the Covid-19 pandemic has taught tourist villages in the world. All lead to post-pandemic tourism village sustainability. These impacts can be identified as in Tabel 1 below:
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Table 1. The response of tourist villages to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic | |
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Impact |
Source |
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The collapse of the local economy |
(Damanik et al., 2022; Everingham & Chassagne, 2020; Jeon & Yang, 2021; Kristiana et al., 2021; Parwata et al., 2022; Sann et al., 2023) |
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Increase in social cohesion |
(Everingham & Chassagne, 2020; Movono & Schey-vens, 2022) |
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Increase in community awareness of the importance of reserve funds and technology use |
(Alghamdi & Al-ghamdi, 2022; Damanik et al., 2022; Parwata et al., 2022) |
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Increase in community awareness of the importance of environmental health |
(Candia & Pirlone, 2022; Damanik et al., 2022; Evering-ham & Chassagne, 2020; Hakim, 2020; Jeon & Yang, 2021; Seal & Premalatha, 2022) |
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Increase in new innovation of tourist attraction |
(Damanik et al., 2022; Jeon & Yang, 2021; Kristiana et |
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development |
al., 2021; Panzer-Krause, 2022; Par-wata et al., 2022; Rogerson et al., 2021) |
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Change of work system and facility unit |
(Damanik et al., 2022) |
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Increase awareness of the importance of mitigation |
(Kristiana et al., 2021; Rogerson et al., 2021; Zhang et al., 2020) |
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Increase awareness of the importance of youth participation |
(Kurniasih et al., 2022; McCartney et al., 2022; Panzer-Krause, 2022; Ro-bina-Ramírez et al., 2022) |
METHODS
This research is qualitative research. The research was conducted in four tourist villages in the Special Region of Yogyakarta which represent each typology of tourist villages and different locations, namely the Pentingsari Tourism Village from Sleman Regency (Independent Tourism Village), the Kakilangit Tourism Village from Bantul Regency (Advanced Tourism Village), the Sosromenduran Tourism Village from Yogyakarta City (Developing Tourism Village, and Glagah Tourism Village from Kulon Progo Regency (Pioneering Tourism Village). Data was collected through an interview process conducted with each Tourism Village Chair. The Tourism Village Chair in this study is considered the key informant who knows best information regarding the impact of Covid-19 on tourist villages. The research data was then analyzed using content analysis techniques. This content analysis was carried out through eight stages according to Dey (2005) starting from finding a focus, managing data, reading and annotating, creating categories, assigning categories, splitting and splicing, data environments and increasingly connections, an producing an account.
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
The discussion in this paper consists of two parts. The first part highlights and describes the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic starting from the aspects of finance, environment, product, technology use, adaptation, to institutional aspects. The second part highlights and discusses the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the opportunities and challenges for the sustainability of tourism villages in the future.
The Impact of Pandemic Covid-19 in Tourism Village
As has happened so far, the Covid-19 pandemic has had a major impact on the world tourism sector, including tourist villages in Indonesia. The development of tourist villages as local economic activists has in fact has not escaped the detrimental impact of Covid-19. Based on Table 2. The collapse of the local economy is one of them. This economic downturn was felt by most of the tourism business actors. There have been many studies that say the same thing (Damanik et al., 2022; Everingham & Chassagne, 2020; Jeon & Yang, 2021; Kristiana et al., 2021; Parwata et al., 2022; Sann et al., 2023).
Even so, not all of this economic downturn has a negative impact on tourism business actors. Some people who make tourism a side job admit that they can still survive even though there is a decrease in income. Thus, this economic downturn will only have a detrimental impact on rural tourism communities who make tourism villages their main source of income, as well as tourism villages that cannot continue their tourism activities at all during the Covid-19 period, such as the people of the Kakilangit Tourism Village. In contrast to the Pentingsari Tourism Village where the tourism business community has other permanent jobs besides in the tourism sector as expressed by the Head of the Tourism Village as follows:
“Yes, surviving and fortunately, tourism in Pentingsari is not the main source of income. In contrast to other tourist villages that make tourism fees their main income. If we are teachers, we are still teachers, civil servants are still civil servants, farmers are still farmers, livestock farmers are still livestock farmers. But when there are guests or tourists it becomes a extra income for us. So, Covid didn't affect too bad.”
On the other hand, Covid-19 has also positive change. This can be seen from Table 2, the emergence of public awareness regarding the importance of reserve funds to survive in emergency time in all the typologies of tourist villages in this study. Not only the individual community, the awareness of the importance of owning and developing reserve funds so that they can increase is also considered important by the managers of tourist villages. During the pandemic, for example, the Pentingsari Tourism Village provided stimulant funds for the community three times during the pandemic. Currently, the Pentingsari Tourism Village is starting to plan to develop its reserve funds so that they increase further through Village Owned Enterprises (BUMDes). These results indicate that currently the community is more focused on increasing reserve funds for the development of tourist villages compared to reducing their financial needs (Damanik et al., 2022; Parwata et al., 2022).
The impact of good changes is also felt on the environmental aspect. The Covid-19 pandemic actually made environmental sustainability and cleanliness more concern. This condition is a good thing for which Pentingsari Tourism Village is grateful as expressed as follows:
“"We are even grateful because it's like we have too many guests, we really have a lot of guests, when it's Covid, it's like now, we have better preservation, in my opinion. In the e-ISSN 2407-392X. p-ISSN 2541-0857
end, we take the lesson tha Covid-19 maybe a way to make nature back to more sustainable”.
Similar conditions are also same with other tourist villages such as Ka-kilangit and Sosromenduran where Covid-19 has changed people's habits or lifestyle to become healthier. This result is in line with previous research that the COVID pandemic has encouraged the development of more sustainable and environmentally friendly tourism services (Candia & Pir-lone, 2022; Damanik et al., 2022; Evering-ham & Chassagne, 2020; Hakim, 2020; Jeon & Yang, 2021; Seal & Premalatha, 2022). The next good impact is increasing awareness of the use of technology in all typologies of tourist villages. For example, the thoughts of the Glagah Tourism Village state that Covid-19 is related to:
“Even though people cannot come to our village, we can still sell our local products.”
Even though there are not many implementations of the use of technology, at least there is a change in the mindset of the community regarding the importance of the role of technology in the advancement of tourism villages. But unfortunately, in the effort to implement it, there are still obstacles as stated by the Kakilangit Tourism Village below:
“Already, but there are often have problems and I haven't finished with that problem yet. Money is received by another people. It makes me confused, but we prefer to handle reservation with our own team. That which is more reliable. For online bookings, we are looking for professionals. What often causes problems is that only yesterday we tried to close the toll road because it was often used by other people at very high prices. Suddenly we have paid, we have to serve and that's a lot of problems.” http://ojs.unud.ac.id/index.php/eot
Apart from technology, Covid-19 has also brought positive changes in terms of work systems and existing facilities. Since Covid-19 emerged, of course every tourist village is aware of the importance of implementing health protocols. This is in line with previous research (Damanik et al., 2022). This awareness then brought changes to the tourism village policy. For example, the Pentingsari Tourism Village, which routinely sterilizes rooms before use, and the Sosromenduran and Glagah Tourism Villages, which continue to open tourism activities during the pandemic. This is a better way not to prohibit people who want to continue to run their business as stated by the Head of the Sosromen-duran Tourism Village:
“So, there are different opinions, but we have decided that we can receive guests but still follow the health protocol. So, we don't forbid people to make money. If anything happens it is the responsibility of the business owner.”
The Covid-19 pandemic has also encouraged every community and tourist village to provide their health facilities. The provision of these health facilities comes from government assistance and some comes from non-governmental organizations such as the Tourism Villages of Ka-kilangit, Glagah and Sosromenduran. Uniquely, this phenomenon also creates new job opportunities, such as what happened in the Pentingsari Tourism Village:
“Covid has made almost every one of us have a sink. In fact, we end up buying a lot of sinks and selling them to community like this, so it becomes additional income, but we sell them cheaply.”
This finding illustrates the other side of previous research which stated that Covid-19 had damaged some facilities due to disuse and lack of maintenance during the pandemic (Damanik et al., 2022). Even
time there were several attractions that were no longer running, so we moved on to the jeep tour documentation session.”
This finding is different from previous research in that The Head of tourist village prefer to rotate the business community into the ongoing tourism sector rather than switching to other jobs. (Damanik et al., 2022).
Regarding to networking, the emergence of Covid-19 has also increased the initiation of collaboration. For example, the Kakilangit Tourism Village, which is actively trying to join the Astra Prosperous Village. Sosromenduran is also trying to establish cooperation with hotels in Yogyakarta to offer tour packages to tourists. Glagah Tourism Village is also collaborating with MSMEs in chili processing, which was unthinkable before the Covid-19 period. Apart from that, the Pentingsari Tourism Village will work with Village Owned Enterprises (BUMDes) to develop new destinations. This is in line with previous research (Panzer-Krause, 2022) but is a different finding from research (Damanik et al., 2022) which states that Covid-19 reduces efforts and the desire to collaborate with partners.
Another impact of the Covid-19 pandemic that is most visible in the four typologies of tourist villages is the increase in innovation in creating new tourist attractions. These results are in line with previous research (Damanik et al., 2022; Jeon & Yang, 2021; Kristiana et al., 2021; Panzer-Krause, 2022; Parwata et al., 2022; Rogerson et al., 2021) that Covid-19 has pressured new alternative tourism activities to emerge to fulfill demand. In the Covid-19 conditions, creativity and innovation are important for all tourist villages to be able to survive, as stated by the Chair of the Ka-kilangit Tourism Village as follows:
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so, there is still a good impact from Covid-19, namely the addition of health facilities. We can see another impact of the presence of Covid-19 from the institutional aspect.
From a management/regulation perspective, Covid-19 is pushing for changes that lead to the sustainability of tourist villages. Pentingsari Tourism Village, for example, does not prioritize the large number of visitors but is more selective in choosing visitors. Furthermore, the Kakilangit Tourism Village also made new rules regarding the resignation of the community as members of the tourist village. This is done to foster togetherness and unity among the community of business actors in the Ka-kilangit Tourism Village so that they strive to rise together during the pandemic as stated below:
“We set it to be like the relationship between the company and employees, so that when they don't want to fight the pandemic situation, we prepare a resignation letter and they are not allowed to register again. Those are losers who want to feel good. If it's not good, they leave. If you have resigned and your family is not allowed to register, our rule is like that.”
The Sosromenduran and Glagah Tourism Villages also made changes to the management of the tourism villages. In the Sosromenduran Tourism Village, they are trying to add human resources from young people. This is undeniable considering that during the Covid-19 era, the role of media and technology has become one of the main forces to rise so that young people need to be involved. Whereas in the Glagah Tourism Village, they made changes by rotating employees so that everyone continues to earn income during Covid-19 as stated below:
“Collaborate with friends who are in digital marketing, because at that time there were workers who we shifted to documenting tourist jeeps. At that http://ojs.unud.ac.id/index.php/eot 212
the recovery process, namely by creating tour packages with a background of local wisdom. So, there is material culture, there is behavioral culture, and there is performance culture which we package into an attraction. So, there is a kind of innovation but it is based on local wisdom.”
Creativity and innovation are mandatory demands that cannot be negotiated. This is in line with previous research which states that there is no better time to make progress in society except after Covid-19 (Candia & Pirlone, 2022; Everingham & Chassagne, 2020). For example, the Pentingsari Tourism Village has innovated by creating a new attraction called 'Inspiration Garden' and the Glagah Tourism Village with a tourist jeep attraction on the edge of the lagoon. In addition, the Covid-19 pandemic is closely related to health and herbal products as one of the solutions. From this condition, new business opportunities emerge, such as traditional health
drinks such as lemongrass ginger, wedang uwuh, instant ginger, etc. These opportunities were captured by the following Pentingsari and Kakilangit Tourism Villages:
“Yes, at that time people had to drink something warm. So, those are the opportunities that we create new markets to survive. So many people still manage the Wedang Uwuh tourism business and I included this in the tour package, because until now it still exists. This is one of the Covid innovation.”
Based on these findings, it can be said that Covid-19 is an important historical moment for the rise of innovation and new ideas, fighting spirit, and unity among the people of tourist villages in DIY. This is in line with previous findings that COVID-19 can strengthen social cohesion in increasing the resilience of the tourism business community (Everingham & Chas-sagne, 2020; Movono & Scheyvens, 2022).
Table 2. The response of tourist villages to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic
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Theme |
Direct quotes of participants |
Fiance
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The collapse of the local economy |
survive (1)
our main livelihood and had stopped completely (2 & 3)
earn 40% of our usual profit (4) |
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Increase in community awareness of the importance of reserve funds |
life of the people, namely saving part of the income as a reserve fund (2 & 3)
case of an emergency situation (1 & 4) |
Environment
|
Increase in community awareness of the importance of environmental health |
maintained (1)
wash hands and spraying in every house (2 & 3) |
Product
|
Increase in new innovation of tourist attraction |
duction, for example, the production of herbal spices which is |
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development |
• • • |
also used as a new attraction (1 & 2) So, we make new products to survive and accelerate recovery, namely making tour packages with a background of local wisdom (2) We have found ideas, namely how people cannot come to our village but we can still sell our products (4) We created a new attraction, a jeep tour on the outskirts of the lagoon (4) |
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Technology Use | ||
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Increase in community awareness of the importance of technology use |
• • • • |
Now we have formed an IT Team consisting of five young people to do digital marketing (1) The use of technology for marketing community products during Covid-19 has been carried out until we are unable to meet market demand (2) Previously, promotions were carried out only using brochures, but now they have switched to social media (3) Technology training for digital marketing is very important after the covid pandemic (3 & 4) |
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Adaptation | ||
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Change of work system |
• • • |
The entire room must be completely sterilized by spraying after use (1) Our policy may receive guests but still apply the protocol so that it does not prohibit those who want to make money (3) We see an opportunity that this covid can be circumvented with health protocols so that we never close tourism activities here (4) |
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Change of facility unit |
• • • • |
Before covid-19, it could be filled with 3 or 4 peoples in one room of homestay, since Covid-19, a maximum of 2 people in one room (1) We have also started to build health room facilities on the camping ground (1) Covid has made almost every house have a sink and it can actually become a new job because it can be sold to other peoples (1) We are also preparing health protocol equipment both independently and with government assistance (2 & 3) |
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Institutional | ||
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Change of Manage-ment/ Regulation |
• • • • |
We are more selective in choosing tourists based on covid-19 exposure zoning (1) We made internal regulations regarding the provisions for the resignation of tourism business actors (2) We add human resources from young people (3) We shift human resources to attractions that are still running (4) |
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Increase in collaboration |
• • |
We are trying to develop new destinations through collaboration We are trying to access cooperation with the private sector for the development of tourist villages (2,3, & 4) |
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The difficulty of increasing youth participation |
• • |
We still need the participation of young people who have the inspiration to take an active part in developing a tourism village (1) The psychological burden, especially for young people, is enormous because they have left their parents' jobs as farmers to |
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focus on developing tourism but had to stop during the Covid-19 period (2)
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• It is still difficult for young people to be involved in the management of tourist villages because they have not yet made much profit, so they are more focused on their own work (3)
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• The process of nurturing young people as tourism business actors continues to be carried out even though sometimes it is still difficult due to economic interests (4)
Source : Authors' fieldwork, 2023
Additional Information:
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(1) Pentingsari Tourism Village
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(2) Kakilangit Tourism Village
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(3) Sososromenduran Tourism Village (4) Glagah Torism Village
The Opportunities and Challenges of Pandemic Covid-19 to Tourism Village
Based on this research, the Covid-19 pandemic has not only had an impact that is directly felt by tourist villages, both positive and negative, but has also created new opportunities and challenges. The first is related to finance. From the financial side, we know that Covid-19 has only crippled the economy of people who rely on tourism activities as their main income. Based on these conditions, the tourist village community must start thinking about the sustainability of their work by preparing alternative jobs or by innovating to create new job opportunities as is done by the Glagah and Kakilangit Tourism Villages. In this case, product innovation is the only way to survive the pandemic.
This spirit of innovation must continue to be instilled in the tourism village business community. This is in line with previous research that the collapse of tourism due to the COVID-19 pandemic forced many destinations to rethink their economic models by focusing on sustainability and innovation (Candia & Pirlone, 2022).
In institutional terms, the management of tourist villages must begin to develop the concept of a Business Continuity Plan (BCP). This is aimed at preparing continuity plans for tourist villages and the business communities for unexpected
conditions. Development can start by mapping potential and vulnerabilities, preparing and training the community in emergency conditions, preparing reserve funds, developing plans to recover and strategies to continue carrying out tourism activities in times of emergency, and collaborating. These six things are not all present in tourist villages in DIY. However, after Covid-19, there has been an increase in public awareness and efforts regarding the importance of reserve funds in emergency times. This condition still needs to be improved and integrated with other mitigation efforts (Kristiana et al., 2021; Rogerson et al., 2021; Zhang et al., 2020). These results reflect on Indonesia's mainstay tourist village destination, namely the Mandalika Lombok, that mitigation by the government alone will not be enough so it needs community support, volition and innovation to make it happen. (Damanik et al., 2022).
During the Covid-19 era, cleanliness and environmental sustainability were also better maintained. The pandemic condition also changed people's lifestyle to be healthier. This condition will ultimately change tourism trends where mass tourism will be replaced by tourism that prioritizes cleanliness, safety and environmental sustainability. (Candia & Pirlone, 2022; Everingham & Chassagne, 2020; Hakim, 2020; Jeon & Yang, 2021; Seal & Premalatha, 2022). In
this case, the benchmark for tourism development is no longer based on quantity but based on quality because tourist behavior in having tourist locations has changed along with the Covid-19 pandemic. This finding is in line with previous research that the pandemic has changed their preferences in choosing tourist destinations. In the end tourists will prefer nature-based destinations that are not crowded so as to reduce the risk of virus exposure (Evering-ham & Chassagne, 2020; Jeon & Yang, 2021; NZIER, 2020; Seal & Premalatha, 2022). This condition become a challenge for tourist villages to provide tourist attractions and health and safety environments standards.
On the other hand, human resources are still a challenge in developing tourist villages after the Covid-19 pandemic. Current conditions indicate that it is difficult to increase youth participation due to economic interests. In fact, the role of young people in developing tourist villages after the pandemic is very important. The process of regenerating tourist village management is still a challenge for tourist villages to this day. A special strategy is needed in approaching this. In addition to the participation of young people, the use of technology in the development of tourist villages still needs to be improved. In this case digital transformation is still a major issue. There are still few human resources who can innovate using technology in the context of a tourist village. This is in line with previous research that directing the ability of the village's millennial generation in using technology to actively contribute to village tourism is also an important strategy during the Covid-19 pandemic. (Kurniasih et al., 2022; McCartney et al., 2022; Panzer-Krause, 2022; Robina-Ramírez et al., 2022).
villages but also independent tourism villages. This condition shows that in the conditions of the Covid-19 pandemic there is no truly safe tourist village. Independent tourism villages such as Pentingsari, which often serve as role models for other tourist villages, have also felt the impact of Covid-19, although on the other hand they have more resources to survive. Glagah Tourism Village, which is considered the most vulnerable tourist village because of its status as a pilot tourism village, has also been able to survive the impacts caused by Covid-19.
The impact caused by the Covid-19 pandemic on tourist villages is not only a negative impact. Based on the discussion in this study, many positive impacts were also felt by all categories of tourist villages in DIY. This positive impact can be seen in terms of finance, environment, social cohesion, youth participation, product innovation, management/ regulation changes, facilities, networking, and increasing technology use. This also changes our perspective on Covid-19 that Covid-19 is not always bad. Covid-19 is an important historical moment for the emergence of innovation and new ideas, fighting spirit, and unity among the people of tourist villages in DIY. Even so, Covid-19 still leaves new opportunities and challenges that must be accepted by tourist villages in the new era of post-pandemic tourism. These opportunities and challenges include the growth of new job opportunities related to health and local wisdom, the development of BCP in the context of a tourist village, the development of tourist attractions and health and safety environments standards, the improvement of human resources and the development of technology utilization. This result certainly has implications for the practice of developing tourist villages in DIY. Future research can continue the dis-
CONCLUSION cussion regarding the strategies that need
to be taken in developing each typology of
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We acknowledge the Provincial Government of the Special Region of Yogyakarta (DIY), Pentingsari Tourism Village, Kakilangit Tourism Village, Sosrimenduran Tourism Village, and Glagah Tourism Village for providing convenience to the first author for undertaking this research.
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