This is How Pandemic Affected Hospitality Industry. An Interview Report

I have interviewed someone who have a good knowledge for the topic that I brought. He is Muhammad Alfan Hakim who is a Student of hospitality study in Sahid Polytechnic of Tourism Jakarta. His background has convinced me to decided interviewed him about this.

Currently, he has been working as an Intern in one of a Hotel in Bandung. I asked him about the topic with several questions, started with the different that he felt before pandemic situation and in the pandemic right now. He said that, "in the hospitality industry, he felt the different with right now situation". As we know, right now every industries in global nor in our country are affected with this pandemic as well as Hotel Industry. Hotel industry seems related with tourism because before the pandemic everyone could go whenever they want without any worries and warning. Furthermore, Hotel is a vital place where everyone decided to staycation. Ever since the pandemic, so many Hotels were closed permanently because they experienced a significant decrease in income. as he said that "The occupancy have decreased and the income to the hotel's also having dwindle" which it made the management should take a risk in order to overcome the situation, he said that the hotel management have applied health protocols to guarantee that all the guest are safe to stay, in the early pandemic they stopped all the interns and several workers with no limit discernible time. and while the others, they do shifting system works. Those all the thing they did just to reduced expense of the hotel, so the hotel could survive. Also they stopped the buffe and changed into room service delivered, the guests ordered menu and will be delivered to their room. 

As Indonesian's Governments suggested that the workers in the hotels should using mask and face shield. In addition, they restricted the usage of ballroom with 50% capacity in maximums. We knew from the interview session that the hotel already do all the best and trying best to obey all the strict protocols. for the shake of surviving in this pandemic. "May the pandemic gone soon" he stated.

To sum up, everyone could staycation with notes that they must obey all the protocols applied in the hotels because the management tried so hard to giving the best service they could to all the guests.

Photograper Interview Report

I interviewed one of the students from University of Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka who is also a freelance photographer. His name is Dhion. I asked him how long he had experienced in photography and he said that he had been working as a photographer for almost 3 years. I wonder why did he choose this field as his hobby and he said that he liked travelling and took some pictures. He gave an opinion about some of the main duties of photographer, he said that the main duties of photographer is take a photo with different point of view. 

Then, I asked him what challenges he faced the most and how he handled them. He said the challenge he faced the most was the unpredictable weather and to deal with that he had to check the weather conditions before he went to the place he was going to visit. On the next question, I asked him what he likes the most about his hobby and he said he could captured many things and post it in instagram. He also said that many professional photographers are his inspiration and he wants to be like them. I asked him what photography means to people and he said photography for people is a way to see or captured many things around us from different point of view. That's why so many people likes photography. I'm also asking for his opinion on what photography means to him and he said photography means a lot to him because from there he can make money. He said his hobby started since he did it just for fun, then he felt very comfortable doing that and finally he became a freelancer. 

On the last question I asked him to give advice to people who are starting to become photographers. He said to start being a photographer of course you must have a camera and start from capturing the little things around us and don't be lazy to keep trying until we get the best results.

Interview Report

I interviewed one of the college students from Trisakti School of Management in Bekasi, her name is Alyani Khairina. I asked about her perception about Covid-19 pandemic. The first question that i asked was her daily activity during this pandemic situation. She said that the pandemic has changed her daily activities, she gets limited to go anywhere and meeting her close friends during this condition and just studying at her home almost every day. Then, she said that this pandemic is occur naturally, so she just used the health protocol if she want to go outside, or maybe if she was bored she would like to had some “me time” before she continue to study.

The next thing that I wanted to know is this pandemic situation disrupting her studies or not. And she responds that sadly yes, she gets hard for understanding what her lecturer is saying because there's a limit that she can’t do some practical, meanwhile, she had some practical in computer laboratory to learn about SAP system that important to accounting studies. Also she felt that home is not a great place to study because there's so much distraction like families or connection. 

Furthermore, she doesn’t think that online learning prevented her to study or making an assignment since she just finishing her paper recently. She said that if she had to choose to study online or face-to-face learning she rather choose online because she thinks she enjoys online learning, but sometimes she wants to go offline too because she could meet her friends and study together. At the end of the interview she hopes in this situation the lecturers could understand us because there are many student that hasn't had a good connection while doing classes, so she hopes there’s a tolerance for them and just dont be really strict to them.