Tourism- A Blessing or a Curse

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Tourism- A Blessing or a Curse

Introduction

Life's a beach - for the tourists. Many locals of tourist destinations are benefiting from the boom in tourism, but at a price. Tourism has been established for a long time in resorts at the beaches of Sanur and Kuta as well as the gorges which surround the Ubud village. However, the place is an exclusive feature of all major travel brochures which show the gentle rice farmers devoting themselves to their unique religions' glamorous rituals. Still what with the advent of the modern millennia brought with itself an tourism-driven, astonishing construction boom, which uptill now, exhibits no sign of stopping any time soon.

Discussion

Roughly ten years ago, Bukits' southern peninsula island was almost uninhabited on the outskirts of the Nusa Duas' government-sponsored tourist enclave. But now it is filled to the brim with luxury hotels. All along the west coast and North of Kuta, in Seminyak, the said antique rice fields have been cleared to pave the way for holiday villas which number to more than thousands all made out of modern cement and identical.

According to Murdani Usman / Reuters it isn't fair. A few of those newly erected housing are exceptional works of art and architecture. They are outfitted with exquisite taste. Yet the fact still remains that majority of them are built quite cheaply for fast sales and spread all over the hillsides like a fungal infection. Over the past eight years, an aesthetic crisis has been created by the sheer volume of building as the islands' natural beauty is immolated by the rat race for dollars. This blind race has now created a scenario in which Supply is far more than the Demand. The Indonesian Ministry of Culture and Tourism, in 2010, approximated regarding the oversupplied with tourist accommodations in Bali that almost 9,800 rooms were in excess and still inspite of that fact, in the year 2011 approximately more than10, 000 additional rooms opened up for tourists.

Even though the provincial government has now called a halt on hotel-building, it is just like closing the doors of a barn, after the grooms have made off with all the saddles and tack and all the horses have ran away.

Even now people are making huge fortunes and the values of the Land in prime tourism areas are reaching the stars. Back in the year 2004, Jalan Petitenget (Petitenget Street) in Seminyak used to be quiet areas that only had a a small number of budget tourist restaurants and resorts sprinkled around in the midst of rice fields and cow pastures. It used to be considered a busy day if even ten cars were seen drive on road in an hour; compared to nowadays, almost after eight years, during the peak tourist season, the road is jammed night and day and the traffic crawls along because of the lumbering tourist coaches and concrete mixers. Nowadays a restaurant purchased eight years ago can be sold for almost times the original ...