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JAKARTA,Indonesia,June 11,2020/PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/--

The Indonesian Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy will begin publishing

special COVID-19 updates and travel advisory notices on visiteasia.travel.

ASEAN countries have agreed to maximize shared digital media facilities as a

means of disseminating information related to the handling of COVID-19 and the

promotion of tourism in ASEAN member states through one one-gateway. All

updates on travel, tourism and measures to combat the COVID-19 pandemic from

Indonesian Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy can soon be found at

www.visiteasia.travel.

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The decision was reached following a proposal by current Chair of the ATTCT,

Malaysia, to maximize a shared website of ASEAN tourism to disseminate COVID-19

related updates during a "Special Video Conference Meeting of the ASEAN Tourism

Communication Team (ATCCT) on the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)" on June 4,

2020.

Content to be published on visiteasia.travel will include special COVID-19

related travel content, including statistics, travel advisory notices,

mitigation efforts, new policies and success stories from each member state in

handling COVID-19.

During the meeting, the Director of Inter-Institutional Relations for the

Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy (MoTCE) and Head of the Indonesian

Delegation, Candra Negara, said that the focus of all ASEAN Member States is to

restore tourists trust in the cleanliness and safety of ASEAN destinations.

"The world community wants to know: how strategies to handle COVID-19 are being

developed by AMS. What efforts have been carried out by tourism stakeholders in

each state and ASEAN to face the new normal order of tourism," Director Candra

said.

Speaking on the decision to adopt the "one-gateway" approach, Agustini Rahayu,

Director of Communication Bureau for MoTCE, said, "Indonesia's handling of

COVID-19 is guided by the Minister of Tourism's Regulation No.10 of 2019

concerning Crisis Management. In this effort, we analyze the impact of the

crisis, then followed by action. It includes enhancing channels of

communication, introducing services to reassure tourists and the deployment of

human and digital resources of the tourism and creative economies to tackle the

crisis."

Following this approach, the Indonesian government has provided the

covid19.go.id website, which is managed by the National Task Force as an

official source of COVID-19 data in Indonesia. Specifically, for the tourism

and creative economy sector, MoTCE also provides regular COVID-19 related

updates to the pedulicovid19.kemenparekraf.go.id microsite.

In addition to the deployment of digital and communications resources, the

Indonesian government, through the Ministry of Health, has also issued several

health protocols for various sectors published in both paper and electronic

format (mobile and desktop) as a Health Care Card for tourists.

The decision to join the "one-gateway" information scheme, further reaffirms

Indonesia's role in "ASEAN's Tourism Strategic Plan 2016-2025" and the

development of Indonesia's digital tourism strategy put forward by Vice

Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy Angela Tanoesoedibjo during a "Special

Meeting ASEAN Tourism Ministers" on April 29, 2020.

SOURCE Indonesian Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy

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