Last modified: 2022-01-09
Abstract
The Covid-19 pandemic has had an impact on entrepreneurial intention; economic recessions became an obstacle to the creation of new venture. But in practice, there is a desire to promote the social development of entrepreneurial spirit towards community. This research aims to explore entrepreneurial intention of entrepreneurship webinar participants for tourism and hospitality during the Covid-19 pandemic. The survey was done after four consecutive national webinar series in May and June 2020. It was conducted to the participants of all four webinars with a total of 142 respondents by using google form which was delivered before the webinar ended. Some of the participants consisted of students, lecturers and teachers, but there were also entrepreneurs, housewives, civil servants, and private workers from Jakarta, Bogor, Depok, Tangerang, Bekasi, even from other provinces in Indonesia. The survey results showed that 3.5% of the 113 respondents answered (very unconvinced) and 2.7% (unsure) if there were culinary business opportunities during the pandemic, the rest were (confident) and (very confident) in the second series webinar. Furthermore, 31% of the 29 respondents at the third series webinar stated (still thinking) and the remaining 69% stated (yes) intend to open a business after attending a webinar about entrepreneurship in the field of tourism and hospitality. The conclusion is that webinars play a role in stimulating the entrepreneurial intention of webinar participants compared to the economic recession situation caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.