<![CDATA[Tourism destinations are not merely settings for recreation and consumption; they are relational arenas in which visitors, residents, workers, vendors, and managers interpret one another and negotiate acceptable conduct. This study examines how Bili Park, a family tourism destination in Gowa Regency, Indonesia, is socially produced through host-guest interaction and how cultural differences are negotiated in everyday encounters. A qualitative case-study design was used. Data were generated through observation, in-depth interviews, and documentary review involving visitors, local residents, destination managers, vendors, and tourism workers. The material was analysed iteratively through data selection, thematic grouping, cross-source comparison, interpretation, and conclusion drawing, with source and technique triangulation used to strengthen credibility. The findings identify five interconnected interactional repertoires: information exchange, service and hospitality, commercial exchange, shared use of facilities, and co-presence in recreational activities. These repertoires move along a continuum from instrumental contact to relational engagement. Cultural negotiation occurs primarily through micro-accommodations in language, forms of address, gesture, service style, spatial conduct, and responses to local norms. Such accommodations do not erase cultural difference; instead, they establish provisional conventions that make heterogeneous actors mutually intelligible within the destination. The study contributes to tourism sociology by linking the production of social space with symbolic interaction and cultural negotiation in a secondary Indonesian leisure destination. It also shows that destination quality depends not only on attractions and infrastructure but on the interactional conditions through which respect, comfort, and local participation are sustained.]]>
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