Tourism in Bali and the Challenge of Sustainable Development

Dr Sylvine Pickel-Chevalier, PhD, is an Associate Professor and Geographer at the Faculty of Higher Studies in Tourism, Culture and Hospitality at the University of Angers, France. She specializes in studies relating to tourism, questioning its potential as an agent of sustainable development and its ambiguities, particularly when faced with the diversity of the world. She is president of the Association for Tourism Research and Education on Indonesia and co-director of the international conference “Tourism in Indonesia: Vector of Sustainable Development?” Her publications about Indonesia include several articles co-written with Philippe Violier, I Ketut Budarma, Asep Parantika and Ni Putu Sartika, as well as the books: Une histoire touristique des côtes atlantiques françaises: Saint-Trojan-les-Bains, modèle de station oléronaise dans un monde en évolution (2015) and L’Occident face à la nature. A la confluence des sciences, de la philosophie et des arts (2014).