Title: Rehabilitating the tourism sector post Covid-19 pandemic: lesson learnt from Indonesia

Authors: Carunia Mulya Firdausy

Addresses: Faculty of Economics and Business, The University of Tarumanagara, Jl. Letjen S. Parman No. 1, Jakarta 11440, Indonesia; Research Centre for Industrial Economy, Services, and Trade-National Research and Innovation Agency, Jl. Gatot Subroto No. 10, Jakarta 12710, Indonesia

Abstract: This paper aims to review and discuss the initiatives of the Government of Indonesia to rehabilitate the tourism sector post-covid-19 pandemic. The data used was from secondary sources. These data were then reviewed and analysed descriptively to address the study's objectives. The result shows the tourism policies or strategies suggested by international organisations and other past studies do not fit all countries. Three pillars of innovation, adaptation, and collaboration introduced by the government of Indonesia to rehabilitate the tourism sector post-Covid-19 pandemic need to be detailed in terms of action plans and quantitative targets with close collaboration with the private sector and other wide range of tourism stakeholders. Also, decisions to rehabilitate the tourism sector post-covid-19 pandemic must be supported by evidence-based policy research. This study contributes to the importance of international comparative policy research in the tourism field post-pandemic as it is still limited to date.

Keywords: tourism policy; innovation; adaptation; collaboration; post-Covid-19 pandemic; Indonesia.

DOI: 10.1504/IJTP.2023.132226

International Journal of Tourism Policy, 2023 Vol.13 No.4, pp.287 - 299

Received: 10 May 2022
Received in revised form: 16 Sep 2022
Accepted: 27 Sep 2022
Published online: 13 Jul 2023 *

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