Mandalika Beach in West Nusa Tenggara province, on the island of Lombok, Indonesia.
Credit: Flickr/Beril Huliselan
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Bali’s resort enclave of Nusa Dua traces its roots back to the 1970s, when a state-owned company called the Bali Tourism Development Corporation (BTDC) was tasked with managing a plot of land in southern Kuta and coordinating its metamorphosis into a premier hotel development complex. At the time, Bali was not the booming tourist hub that is it today and so BTDC’s role was to reassure skittish investors looking to get into the local market that the full force of the Indonesian state was backing the project. As part of that brief, BTDC built out and provided good quality infrastructure and amenities that would make Nusa Dua an attractive option for global hoteliers.