FEMALE TOURISM WORKERS AND THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Women are vulnerable to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. This happened because the pandemic situation made companies generally cut the number of female workers for the first time for reasons of efficiency. This research reveals female tourism workers and the Covid19 pandemic. The research method used is qualitative, with purposive sampling. The results of the study prove that the Covid-19 pandemic is destroying the business world globally, with the impact of 4500 female tourism workers in Nusa Dua (85%), with a loss of 9 trillion rupiah per month. This situation requires workers who are generally the first to be unpaid live.


INTRODUCTION
The Covid-19 pandemic situation that broke out at the end of 2019 has destroyed the development of world tourism. Tourism is like suspended animation without any development.
The Jakarta Post (14 July 2020) explained that 5.9 trillion of revenue from the tourism sector in Indonesia had disappeared due to the outbreak of this virus. This of course requires serious attention and serious handling of the next steps, both from the government, businessmen, and the community.
Tourism as an industry is growing by involving various components, both natural resources, communities, governments, service providers, and the tourists themselves. The developments that occur require an order of handling with new norms that no longer adhere to the concept of mass tourism, where tourist arrivals are expected on a large scale without thinking about the consequences or impacts on the environment and natural surroundings. The involvement of women in tourism can reduce gender inequality in development.

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Some general facts about women in tourism are outlined by UNWTO (2011), as follows: 1. Women make up a large proportion of the formal tourism workforce.
2. Women are represented at the service and administrative level, but under-represented at the professional level.
3. Women in tourism typically earn 10% to 15% less than men in the workforce.
4. The tourism sector makes women as business owners/employers, which is almost twice that of other sectors. 5. One in five tourism ministers worldwide is a woman.
6. Women who work in the tourism sector become self-employed/independent with a much higher proportion than in other sectors.

A large amount of unpaid work is being done by women in the family tourism business
The above description illustrates that the involvement of women workers in various fields of work, including the tourism industry, plays an important role in the development and development of a country.

Women Informal Sector Workers
Referring to the Manpower Act (UU) no. 13/2003, informal workers refer to people who work without an employment relationship, which means there is no agreement that regulates the elements of work, wages and power. The Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration generally defines the informal sector as all unregistered commercial and noncommercial businesses (or economic activities), which do not have a formal organizational structure and generally have the following characteristics: family owned, small-scale activities, dense works, using adapted technology and relying on local resources.

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The 17th International Conference on Labor Statistics (in BPS, 2013) defines informal sector workers as 'employees whose employment relationships are not covered by legislation or in practice, not subject to labor, tax, income, social protection laws or certain entitlements to certain job security (notice of prior dismissal, poor pay, annual pay or sick leave, etc.)" In calculating informal workers, BPS takes a special approach in determining the population working in the formal/informal sector, namely based on employment status in the main job and type of work/position (BPS, 2013). According to their status, workers are categorized into seven: 1) self-employed; 2) trying to be assisted by temporary workers/unpaid workers; 3) Trying to be assisted by permanent workers/paid workers; 4) workers/Employees/employees; 5) Freelancing in Agriculture; 6) Non-agricultural workers; 7) Family/unpaid workers. Elly Hutabarat, explained that the pandemic had hit businesses in the fields of flights, hotels and travel agencies.

CONCLUSION
The Covid-19 pandemic has destroyed world tourism, millions of accommodation and travel service businesses have been forced to stop operating. Thousands of women tourism workers in Bali cannot work, switch to other fields of work, and increase the high unemployment rate. The government made various efforts to overcome this, including by involving other parties, also between institutions, both central and regional, as well as other community members.