Traditional Knowledge Based Ecotourism in Bali

Abstract

The global tourism industry has been slow to respond to major environmental changes and critical conservation needs of the 21st. The Balinese industry is no exception. It is poorly equipped to deal with environmental change. But it is critical that it does so. The industry is dependent on a high quality and sustain environment. It is time for the industry to invest in skill and competencies to underpin sound environmental management. As the famous tourist destination in the world, Bali tries to create traditional knowledge based ecotourism concerning with the government planning in 2009 about creative economic, because by these activities, ecological, cultural, and economic sustainable can be expected.