Ubud: Benteng Terbuka
Keywords:
Ubud, Open Fortress, Bali tourism, cultural tourism, expatriate, tourism economyAbstract
This article discusses evolution and present problems
of Ubud as a tourist town in the context of Bali tourism
development. Ubud has always provided an alternative
vision of what tourism in Bali could be. The metaphor of an
Open Fortress provides a useful lens for looking at Ubud
over the past century. “Tourism” is in Ubud has always
been closely linked to an expatriate community and other
international economic activities. Tourism is not a oneway
process – it is always a dialectical process between
local communities and visitors (as Michel Picard told us
long ago). This process is always changing and in Ubud it
has now entered a new phase – involving a tourism/expat
nexus that is quite disconnected from local community and
culture.
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