Part 1. Tourism in Bali 1. The Image of Bali in Guidebooks 2. Bali on the Internet 3. Bali Tourism Statistics 4. Is Bali a Southeast Asian Disneyland? 5. Hypotheses About Tourism and Bali Part 2. Semiotic Ball 6. Balinese Symbols and Icons 7. Coda: Bali on my Mind
Biography
Arthur Asa Berger, PhD is Professor Emeritus of broadcast and electronic communication arts at San Francisco State University where he taught between 1965 and 2003. He is the author of more than 50 books on media, popular culture, humor, everyday life and in recent years travel and tourism. Among his books on tourism are Deconstructing Travel; Cultural Perspectives on Tourism; Ocean Travel and Cruising; Vietnam Tourism and Thailand Tourism.
In these books on tourism, he uses a cultural studies and socio-semiotic approach to tourism, analysing important signs, symbols and touristically important activities in the cultures and societies he studies.
He has lectured in more than a dozen countries and his books have been translated into eight languages.
