Original scientific paper
Social and Spatial Generators of Festival Tourism in Tolmin, Slovenia
Miha Kozorog
; University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Abstract
Subcultural popular music festivals can be seen as a form of tourism, but we should also take into account that they can provoke discomfort in their host communities. The article discusses festivals in Tolmin, where they appeared without planning, seemingly out of the blue, and became part of tourist offer. Social and spatial factors important for the implementation and development of those festivals are discussed. Of key importance was the response of local inhabitants, who accepted the festivals as their own, since through them, they could achieve an image of centrality.
Keywords
festivals; festival venue; genealogy of festivals; festival tourism; subculture; host community; centre-periphery; tourism planning; Tolmin
Hrčak ID:
93967
URI
Publication date:
20.12.2012.
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