Word: tourisme
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Tuesday’s assassination of Rehavam “Gandhi” Ze’evi, the minister of tourism in the Israeli parliament, by Palestinian gunmen might prompt an ambivalent response from those who care deeply about the violence in the Middle East. Over the past year, Israel has operated a policy of locating Palestinian leaders whom they have linked with terrorist activity within Israel and killing them with surgical missile strikes on their homes and cars. Dozens of Palestinian leaders, as well as some bystanders, have been killed in such strikes...
...Every crisis has brought new embassy travel warnings to my inbox. And every time a travel warning for Indonesia arrives, I hear a collective murmur from my multinational friends here, whose ranks include indigenous Balinese villagers increasingly dependent on tourism, Chinese-Balinese businesspeople and American and European expats working in the large tourist hotels. The murmur is always the same. "Tell them Bali is different?" they urge me. "Tell them Bali is safe, even happy...
...tiny speck right in the middle of the incredible rainbow of cultural diversity that is Indonesia, Bali has a happy role as the tourism center of Indonesia. Traditionally an isolated society of fierce warriors, Balinese culture was shaped by a wave of kings and princes who crossed from Java to Bali about 700 years ago to escape the invading Muslims. They set up their kingdoms in Bali and then defended their turf so fiercely that even the Dutch did not bother to subjugate them until the 20th century...
...Balinese are very aware that the world views their culture with delight. This awareness informs their interactions with foreigners, which makes for a very happy tourism business. It also helps the Balinese to hold onto their culture and religion even as they accept modern life. Bali?s focus on tourism business has also shielded it from much of the economic hardship over the past five years. And because the Balinese economy has remained relatively strong, compared to other areas of Indonesia, the political and social situation has remained calm and orderly. Bali?s pervasive peace has brought a wave...
...Balinese says foreigner he means other non-Balinese Indonesians as well, including the thousands of Muslims and Chinese-Indonesians living and working in Bali. All guests are entitled to the same rights, and certainly no individual or group of guests are allowed to do anything to damage the tourism business in Bali, or tarnish Bali?s image as an enlightened, friendly place. Having already resisted the Muslim expansion for 700 years, and having learned to absorb three million tourists a year while keeping their traditional culture, the Hindu Balinese are not about to allow outsiders to run their affairs...