The relationship between tourism and the economy is very close, this is because tourism is one of the important sectors that can accelerate economic growth in an area. Many Regions around the world have become highly developed and developed due to tourism. However, the development of tourism has begun to bring some negative impacts such as damage to the environment and natural ecosystems, changes in social values ??and indigenous culture in the area. The emergence of negative phenomena in the tourism sector certainly gets serious attention from academics and practitioners, they are trying to find innovations to minimize the negative impacts that can be caused by tourism. Following up on this condition, the Faculty of Economics, Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha, as one of the faculties at the largest public university in North Bali, again held an international seminar on Tourism, Economics, Accounting, Management, and Social Science (TEAMS) in 2021 to help provide ideas and breakthroughs. in order to minimize negative impacts while maximizing the positive impacts of the tourism sector so that economic growth in an area can continue to develop towards a better and more advanced direction.
he TEAMS international seminar in 2021, is the sixth international seminar since it was first held in 2016. In 2021, the TEAMS international seminar has the theme "Responsible Tourism and Sustainable Economy" by presenting five speakers who have expertise and expertise in the field of economics and tourism from several well-known universities both from home and abroad. The five speakers, namely Prof. Dr. Alexander Hermeneu (Hochschule Fresenius University of Applied Sciences, Germany), Prof. Dr. Naswan Suharsono (State University of Malang, Indonesia), Dr. Evan Lau Poh Hock (Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia), Dr. I Gusti Ayu Purnamawati (Ganesha University of Education, Indonesia) and Dr. Nyoman Dini Andiani (Ganesha University of Education, Indonesia). In addition to presenting five expert speakers, the TEAMS seminar in 2021 also collaborated with three universities as co-hosts, namely Petra Christian University, Palangka Raya University and Nusa Cendana University. The TEAMS 2021 international seminar event will be held online in three days, from 26 October to 28 October 2021.
The seminar was opened directly by Prof. Dr. Nyoman Jampel as Chancellor of Ganesha University of Education and was attended by 712 presenters and participants. Overall, the implementation of the TEAMS 2021 international seminar received very high enthusiasm from various groups who registered as presenters and participants, this was evidenced by the receipt of 103 articles and the activeness of the participants to ask the presenters both in the main seminar session and in parallel sessions. Articles submitted and presented by each presenter will be published internationally on Atlantis Press, so that various breakthroughs and innovations written and put forward by the presenters can be widely known by the public. In addition, the articles that will be published internationally are expected to provide benefits for the economic and social life of the world community. (team)