Bali is ranked as one of the world’s most popular tourist destinations, but is the seemingly insatiable demand for a piece of paradise threatening the very thing that makes the island so special? This week on Foreign Correspondent reporter Bill Birtles travels to Bali to see first-hand the impact cashed up foreign developers are having on the island paradise.
The demand from holiday makers and now digital nomads is turning Bali’s iconic rice paddies and coastline into construction zones. Critics say the Bali that many know and love is now at a crossroad and that over development and under regulation will change the island of the gods forever.
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