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TOURISM, CULTURE, CULTURAL TOURISM

In modern tourism the concept of big and mass tourism has been abandoned and support given to responsible development based on selected programmes and types of tourism, which leads to a new differentiation and quality in the increasingly demanding tourist market. The existing mass and uniform types of tourism are being refined by new and higher quality contents. In that context, culture has a direct impact on tourism and tourism increasingly affects culture, which has become an important motive for tourist travel. While some thirty years ago cultural tourism implied heritage tourism, i.e. visits to cultural and historical monuments, museums and galleries, some ten years ago that phenomenon underwent its transformation, so that today the same term also includes various social, cultural and entertainment events. The aim of this chapter is to provide a broader introduction into the highly diverse and complex topic of cultural tourism and highlight some of its most distinguished features and trends.Today, cultural tourism includes tourist travel during which tourists are active participants in the cultural life of the social community they visit and popular culture represents the part of non-material cultural heritage which forms a new, although often neglected, method of tourist product diversification.

cultural tourism, tourist experience, cultural resources, past, history, heritage.

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