and Information, n.d.) However, the tourism industry
in Indonesia has been negatively impacted by the
COVID-19 pandemic so that the performance of the
tourism industry has decreased. The influx of foreign
tourists to Indonesia has significantly decreased,
resulting in a negative impact on the country's tourism
revenue. The implementation of strict social
distancing measures and travel restrictions has caused
a reduction in state income from the tourism sector by
IDR 20.7 billion (Ministry of Tourism and Creative
Economy of the Republic of Indonesia, n.d.).
According to the Ministry of Tourism and
Creative Economy/Tourism and Creative Economy
Agency, there are three phases for restoring tourism
companies: Emergency Response, Recovery, and
Normalization. Currently, Indonesia is in the
recovery phase and is moving towards normalization.
Therefore, it is crucial to utilize technological
innovation to enhance the performance of tourism
companies after the pandemic. To achieve this,
tourism companies must attract both domestic and
foreign tourists. Marketing activities are a significant
contributor to a company's financial performance.
This is because marketing serves as a competitive tool
for businesses to persuade potential customers to
choose their products and services.
The COVID-19 pandemic has altered
environmental conditions, specifically the shift from
traditional to digital, resulting in a significant increase
in demand for telecommunications services and
devices. Tourism companies must be able to adapt,
innovate and collaborate well to keep up with the
changing community actors and tourism trends. The
tourism sector has seen an increase in internet
penetration and smartphone usage, as well as the
impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has led to
a more effective and efficient flow of information in
the tourism circuit (Velentza & Metaxas, 2023).
The presentation and promotion of tourism
products, as well as consumer behaviour and
information-seeking habits, have undergone
significant changes. Technology has revolutionised
the booking process, with travellers using various
devices and channels to make their arrangements
(Sinclaire & Vogus, 2011). Digital marketing enables
businesses to reach a broader audience, measure
campaign results more accurately, and respond more
quickly to changing trends and consumer preferences.
This is crucial in today's digitally connected business
environment (Chandy et al., 2021).
From all the conditions that have been explained,
digital marketing is a marketing technique that is
suitable for marketing products and services today in
tourism companies to increase revenue from sales.
Digital marketing is not only suitable for tourism
companies but also other companies considering
changes in people's habits or the transition from
traditional to digital.
Digital marketing can be effectively applied to
banking companies, given their intermediation role,
which has a strategic impact on the economy and can
stimulate a country's economic growth. This strategic
impact is due to the fact that banks act as financial
intermediaries, supporting transactions between
countries, collecting funds from the public, and
allocating them effectively and efficiently to
productive sources (Schilling, 2023).
Tourism companies in Indonesia are facing
significant challenges and opportunities due to the
COVID-19 pandemic. To adapt quickly to the
transition from traditional to digital and attract more
consumers, digital marketing is a useful technique for
tourism businesses, leading to increased income. This
concept is also applicable to banking companies, and
the two industries have a unique reciprocal
relationship due to the banking intermediation role.
This research aims to examine the dynamo effect
that arises from the use of digital marketing to
increase income from sales and the reciprocal
relationship that occurs between income from sales of
tourism companies and banking companies post
COVID-19.
2 LITERATURE REVIEW
Digital marketing is the practice of using digital
strategies and tools to promote products, services, or
brands to target audiences through online platforms.
It involves leveraging digital technology, the internet,
and mobile devices to achieve marketing goals.
(Miquel Vidal & Castellano-Tejedor, 2022).
To achieve their goals, companies select their own
marketing tactics using digital tools and
communication channels. Each tactic has a different
function and achieves different objectives. Digital
marketing encompasses marketing via social media,
video, mobile devices, search engines, email, affiliate
networks, online advertising, word of mouth, SEO,
websites, Google Analytics, and text and multimedia
content creation. The effectiveness of online
promotion is contingent upon the strategy selected by
the tourism enterprise. (Yasmin et al., 2015).
Technology plays a significant role in enhancing
the quality of services provided by business units.
According to Khan and Mahapatra (2009), the shift
from traditional marketing to digital marketing is a
decade-long process. Therefore, digital marketing