Changing cultural developments along a tourist route in Bali

Michael Romanos; Laura Dudley Jenkins

doi:10.6092/issn.2036-5195/4081

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Michael Romanos University of Cincinnati
Professor Emeritus of Planning and Economic Development at the School of Design, Art, Architecture and Planning (DAAP), Univercity of Cincinnati. He was the lead PI in the University of Cincinnati Research Council funded project, “Use of the arts as a stimulus for economic growth.” Romanos worked in Indonesia for many years, both as an advisor to the government of Indonesia and as a Fulbright Senior Scholar. He has conducted field research on the role of culture in community, economic and sustainable development for the last 15 years in Indonesia, Thailand, Brazil and Greece. He co-edited Managing intermediate size cities: Sustainable development in a growth region of Thailand (2002) and has published several related articles.
Laura Dudley Jenkins University of Cincinnati

Associate Professor of Political Science at Department of Political Science, McMicken College of Arts and Sciences, University of Cincinnati. Her publications, including Identity and Identification in India (2003, 2009) focus on social justice and identity politics in South Asia. She expanded this focus eastward through fieldwork in Indonesia on the arts and development in 2010. Prior interdisciplinary, collaborative work resulted in the article “Tourism impacts on local life: Socio-cultural continuity and change in Crete” (2007). The recipient of two Fulbright fellowships, Jenkins gratefully acknowledges the University of Cincinnati’s Research Council grant that supported this project.

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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-5195/4081

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Tourism, development, Art, Sustainability, Indonesia

Abstract

One of the most important routes for cultural tourism in Bali connects the seaside tourist town of Sanur to the provincial capital city of Denpasar, continues through the Sukawati Art Market, skirts the village of Mas, site of many studios and workshops, and culminates in Ubud, the historic artistic center of Bali. The city of Ubud is the epicenter of a renowned tradition of painting but it is also a community staggering under the influx of tourists arriving via this route. The roadway from Sanur to Ubud illustrates a range of different types of arts-based heritage tourism, from mass produced art for beachside tourists in Sanur to several high-end galleries in Ubud. This trajectory of towns and their varied relationships with the arts and tourism illustrate the potentials and pitfalls of arts tourism as a means of development, and this roadway highlights the challenges of crafting sustainable routes for tourists interested in the arts.

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