…the traditions of Bali will prosper in direct proportion to the success of the tourist industry. Far from destroying, ruining, or “spoiling” the culture of Bali, I am arguing here that the advent and increase of tourists is likely to fortify and foster the arts: dance, music, architecture, carving and painting.

 Philip McKean, “Cultural Involution: Tourists, Balinese, and the Process of Modernization in an Anthropological Perspective” (PhD dissertation, Brown University, 1973),p. 1.