Rethinking Tourism: Network for Creativity, Culture, and Community in Tourism


Impact typeSocietal
Title Rethinking Tourism: Network for Creativity, Culture, and Community in Tourism
Evidence summary

Cultural Heritage and Identity
November 2025
Research programme in Bali

This intensive research and networking programme brought together artists, researchers and practitioners to explore authentic and responsible cultural heritage practices in the tourism-saturated context of Bali. The programme included workshops, visits, meetings, collaborative working, writing, video interviews and artistic research.

Rethinking Nationhood through Tourism, Heritage and Ecology
10-12 November 2025
Conference in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia. Held in collaboration with Warmadewa University

This three-day conference explored how tourism contributes to the construction, contestation and reimagining of national identity, with particular attention to cultural heritage, ecological change and the pressures facing places such as Bali.

ParticipantsDr Hyung Yu Park
Contributors
Contact personPark, H.
Keywordstourism, sustainability, heritage, art, community
Sustainable Development Goals11 Sustainable cities and communities
Middlesex University ThemeSustainability
Research GroupMarketing, Enterprise and Tourism
LanguageEnglish
Impact stageIn progress
DatesAug 2024 to end of Dec 2026
FunderNordic Culture Fund
ProjectRethinking Tourism: Network for Creativity, Culture, and Community in Tourism
Underpinning researchCritical approaches to tourism, heritage and culture