ABSTRACT
The statistics on tourism in Bali that follow come from a number of different sources, such as the Bali Tourism Authority and articles in Asia Times online that deal with tourism in Bali. A large number of people are attracted to Bali, a “new version of paradise,” as it is described by Michel Picard in Eric Oey’s Bali: Indonesia, for varying reasons (Oey, 1999). This notion that Bali is seen as some kind of a tropical paradise (whether it deserves to be seen as such or not) is a theme that informs my analysis of tourism in Bali and one that is found in many books on Bali.
