Nyoman Darma Putra teaches tourism at the masters and doctorate programmes University of Udayana, Bali, Indonesia. He obtained his PhD from the School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Queensland, in 2003. From 2014 to 2018, he was the head of the master's program in tourism studies at the postgraduate Program University of Udayana. With Michael Hitchcock, she published Tourism, Development, and Terrorism in Bali (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007), while his sole-authored book is A Literary Mirror; Balinese Reflections on Modernity and Identity in the Twentieth Century (Leiden: KITLV Press/ Brill, 2011). Darma also published many books in Indonesian including Wisata Kuliner Attribute Baru Destinasi Ubud (Culinary Tourism, A New Attribute of Ubud Destination) (2016) with Diah Sastri Pitanatri. Darma is the editor-in-chief of Jurnal Kajian Bali (Journal of Bali Studies).