Perspectives on tourism in selected Balinese villages

This paper examines attitudes towards tourism among indigenous residents of eight villages in Ball, Indonesia. Tourism is generally viewed positively: there is a desire to receive more tourists, and a lack of appreciation of negative side-effects of tourism development. However, attitudes vary spatially with those closest to the resorts and the most familiar with tourism having the most reservations. These findings are consistent with earlier writings which suggest that residents of destination areas usually hold positive attitudes towards tourism in the early stages of tourist development. Questions are raised concerning the difficult challenges of incorporating local inputs into the decision making process.