EspacesTemps.net (Apr 2010)

Bali: the development of international tourism and the fostering of the national culture.

  • Michel Picard

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Once Cultural Tourism became the official tourism doctrine of Indonesia, the Balinese infatuation with this formula seems to have become more tempered. Since the 1970s, studies of the sociocultural impact of tourism and seminars on the relationship between tourism and culture are rarer. Not that interest in tourism has dropped — to the contrary — but it has become an integral part of the Balinese cultural landscape 1 . And while Cultural Tourism remains the inescapable point of reference ...