scholarly journals International Media and Tourism Industry as the Facilitators of Socialist Legacy Heritagization in the CEE Region

Urban Science ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 110
Author(s):  
Nebojša Čamprag
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Heritage Tourism ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Nation Branding ◽  
International Media ◽  
International Trends ◽  
The One ◽  
National Governments

After the fall of state socialism in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), the socialist legacy became a matter of contested discourses, coming from the new national governments. However, with the recently awakening nostalgia for socialism and growing international interest for the socialist pasts, the approaches to its legacies began gradually to change. In this paper, the focus is on some recent international trends with regards to the socialist heritage for evaluating the share of their influences in the process of de-contestation occurring at the local/national levels. There are two processes standing in juxtaposition to be observed; on the one hand, official nation branding distances the state from socialist pasts to emphasize, often contrasting, post-socialist national identity. On the other hand, the development of communist heritage tourism attempts to reconsider and appropriate socialist legacies in the national frameworks for identity construction. Using the examples from Hungary, Romania, and the former Yugoslavia, the author demonstrates the role of international media and the tourism industry for meeting the objectives of economic development while maintaining post-socialist national identity senses, but also their potentials in reconsiderations of the contested history chapters.

Museums and Tourism: Reengineering The Role Of Museums In Malaysia’s Cultural Heritage Tourism

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-157
Author(s):  
ShawHong SER
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Heritage Tourism ◽  
Cultural Resource Management ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Cultural Resource ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Cultural Management ◽  
Cultural Heritage Tourism

Since 2013, cultural heritage tourism has been identified as a new segment to be developed by the Malaysia Tourism Promotion Board (MTPB). Today, the sector has undergone rapid growth and have a great impact on Malaysia’s tourism industry, as well as bring prospects for developing museum tourism in Malaysia. In this paper, to respond on the research scholarly interest in cultural management. The researcher discusses the roles of the museum to sustainable cultural heritage tourism growth with a special focus on challenges faces by Malaysia’s museum sector in developing museum tourism. Over the years, many researches have been done, and still researching by scholars on the need for cultural resource management placing focus on the role they take towards cultural economic development. The purpose of this research, among others, is to explore how museums in Malaysia could be more effectively utilized for museum tourism and to make suggestions for better utilization of the museum sector for cultural heritage tourism development. It is hoped that this paper will provide insights into an understanding of cultural heritage tourism in Malaysia with an emphasis on crisis and opportunity in developing museum tourism.

Ways of Applying Destination Management Concepts to the Development of Internal Tourism in Uzbekistan

2015 ◽  
pp. 172-190
Author(s):  
Bakhtiyor Navruz-Zoda ◽  
Nutfillo Ibragimov
Keyword(s):  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Location Selection ◽  
Tourism Management ◽  
Regional Management ◽  
Management Concepts ◽  
The One ◽  
Organic Combination

This chapter examines the role of the destination approach in the development of internal tourism in Uzbekistan. The trump-card of tourism in Uzbekistan is ancient cities like Tashkent, Samarkand, Shakhrisabz, Bukhara and Khiva. The chapter is focused on substantiation of destination model of tourism management, based on a junction of regional management and marketing theories. In order to reform the one-dimensional “package” system of tourism supply that operates in Uzbekistan to a multi-sided “integration” system it is recommended to run “creating destinations” policy in the tourism industry. That implies the creation process of integrated tourist destination based on organic combination of tourism supply and demand. The chapter describes seven stages of destination creating process: determination of purpose of visit in tourist location; selection of sights from destinations; clarification and analyzing destinations creating factors, explanation principles of creating destination; development criteria of creating destinations; creation of attractive destinations; arrangement of destination management system.

Dilemma of Simultaneity

2019 ◽  
pp. 471-479
Author(s):  
Ilyas Saliba ◽  
Wolfgang Merkel
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Political Transformation ◽  
The Third ◽  
Transformation Processes

The theory of the dilemma of simultaneity is empirically based on the transformations of post-socialist states in Central and Eastern Europe. The transformations after the collapse of the socialist bloc were without precedent with regards to breadth and depth. The dilemma of simultaneity consists of three parallel transition processes on three dimensions. The first part of this chapter explores the three dimensions of the transitions: nation building, political transformation, and economic transformation. The second part discusses the three levels of transformation: (1) ethno-national identity and territory, (2) polity, and (3) socio-economic distribution. The third part highlights the complexity and challenges of multidimensional simultaneous transformation processes. The fourth and fifth parts discuss the role of international actors and socio-economic structures on the transitions in Central and Eastern Europe. The chapter concludes with an account of Elster’s and Offe’s critics and their response.

Southward and Otherwise

ARTMargins ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-89
Author(s):  
Uroš Pajović ◽  
Naeem Mohaiemen
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
East Africa ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Shadow Play ◽  
Yugoslav Wars ◽  
Blind Spots

This project comes out of a conversation between Mohaiemen and Pajović, about the relative absence of Non-Aligned Movement co-founder Josip Broz Tito, from the three-channel film Two Meetings and a Funeral (2017, dir: Mohaiemen). In the film, a series of conversations between Vijay Prashad, Samia Zennadi, Atef Berredjem, Amirul Islam, and Zonayed Saki sketch out the shadow play of warring forces inside the Non-Aligned Movement, especially around the decolonizing nations of the Middle East, Africa, and Asia that found an option to look toward an "Islamic" supra-national identity. Because of that focus, the role of Central and Eastern Europe, especially that of Yugoslavia under Tito, is absent from the film. Pajović's text re-integrates the Yugoslav bloc into Two Meetings and a Funeral. While Pajović's text concludes with a hopeful view of the potential of the Non-Aligned Movement, Mohaiemen's images and superimposed quote from Tito express an ironic doubling back. Indira Gandhi's Indian coalition of 1971, while maneuvering for Bangladesh independence from Pakistan, encountered Tito's confident comment that such problems of “tribalism” were only happening in Asia. Yugoslavia had solved the “Balkan problem”– this was spoken confidently twenty years before Tito's nation would split apart during the Yugoslav Wars. The geopolitical struggles that Tito fails to see in 1971 are harbingers for the blind spots that would cause Non-Alignment's collapse.

scholarly journals England’s proxy warriors? Women, war and sport

2016 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 393-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Bowes ◽  
Alan Bairner
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Female Athletes ◽  
Rugby Union ◽  
Interview Data ◽  
Popular Press ◽  
Gendered Identity ◽  
Association Football ◽  
English National Identity ◽  
The One

It has been claimed that the one place Englishness exists is on the sports field, and usually it is men’s sport that appears central to creating a sense of English national identity. However, in light of England’s sporting success across multiple women’s sports (namely cricket, netball, association football and rugby union), there warrants a need to begin to question the place of these female athletes in discussions of the nation. Drawing on extensive interview data with women who have represented England at sport, this paper seeks to ‘give a voice’ to these women whose experiences have often been ignored by both the popular press and academics alike. This research discusses the way in which English women represent their nation, both on the field of play and more broadly, and sheds light on the complexity of the intersections of gender and national identity. Attention is also paid to the role of women as warriors in the conventional sense. It is argued that, through playing international, representative sport, the women actively embody the nation, with national identity often overriding gendered identity in these instances. In this sense, they become proxy warriors for the nation.

Benchmarking wine tourism destinations – the case of Bulgaria

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 384-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilinka Terziyska
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Data ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Black Sea Region ◽  
Wine Tourism ◽  
International Trends ◽  
Protected Designation Of Origin ◽  
The One

Purpose The purpose of this paper is twofold – on the one hand, to introduce a framework for benchmarking of wine regions and on the other, to analyze the activities of wineries in Bulgaria with a clear focus on tourism. Design/methodology/approach The research design includes secondary data and content analysis, which are complemented by a survey among wine cellar owners and managers in the country, including respondents from all five wine regions. Findings The paper has identified several problems that impede wine tourism development in Bulgaria, including: small number of wineries, small share of Protected Designation of Origin wines, ineffective business hours structure and small share of wineries offering additional services beyond tasting or cellar-door sales. On the other hand, wineries in Bulgaria conform to international trends in terms of providing accommodation, restaurant and SPA treatments. The survey revealed that tourism-hosting wineries consider wine tourism an important part of their activity but do not succeed in attracting a sufficient number of visitors, and the share of tourism-related revenues to their total incomes is small. Research limitations/implications The survey included all the wineries in the country; in one of the regions (the Black Sea region), however, the response rate was very low, which means that while results and conclusions are representative for the country as a whole, they might not be applicable to this specific region. Originality/value The research results refer to an emerging wine destination, which has not been the object of a comprehensive study yet. In addition, the proposed update of an existing benchmarking model reflects recent changes and trends in the wine tourism industry.

Residents' Satisfaction or Dissatisfaction with Public Sector Governance: The Cretan Case

2002 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Konstantinos Andriotis
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Research Priorities ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Transportation Security ◽  
Greek Government ◽  
National Governments

Local and national governments have at one point or another essential, or even critical influence over the local tourism industry for the provision of numerous services including infrastructure, transportation, security, overseas marketing, as well as funding of tourism projects. Observing a negligence of past research on the opinions of local community to public sector governance, the aim of this study was to investigate Cretan residents' satisfaction or dissatisfaction with the role of local authorities and the Greek government in tourism development. Based on the findings, this paper discusses the implications of the research for future tourism policy and suggests future research priorities.

Construction of favorable national identity through political discourse

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (62) (Special Issue) ◽  
pp. 7-18
Author(s):  
Oana ARDELEANU
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Corpus Linguistics ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Voice Of America ◽  
Future Aspirations ◽  
Relational Values ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
New Year’S Eve ◽  
The One

"The aim of the present paper is to uncover how the use of language by the Romanian former king, Michael I, in his political speeches helps to construct a favourable national identity on the basis of a collection of discourses. The implications for the concept of national identity were discovered using a thematic analysis on five New Year’s Eve messages of the Romanian former king, broadcasted from 1960 to 1989, via the radio channels Free Europe and The Voice of America, the Romanian editions. The choice of the political figure was motivated by the fact that the former king impersonates the Agent who ""displays attitudes, feelings, beliefs, and wishes” (Duranti 2004, 452). The study adopts an approach which derives from the “Constructive Strategies” of Wodak et al. (1999) and a number of sub-strategies, further enhanced by employing the techniques from Corpus Linguistics. I decided to focus on the one concerning the linguistic construction of a common political present and future. It is centred on citizenship, political achievements, current problems, dangers and future aspirations. The linguistic features under study comprise the use of relational values of words, rhetoric devices, and cultural aspects. The results show that the role of the concept of national identity, as it was depicted in king Michael I speeches, was to facilitate the diffusion of the nationalistic messages and to motivate people coming together towards a common goal, namely fighting against the communist oppression."

Interpreting in Tanzania from the perspective of Tanzanian interpreters

Babel ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizaveta Getta
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
The Other ◽  
Lingua Franca ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World ◽  
Official Languages ◽  
The One

Abstract The study overviews the role of interpreting services in Tanzania, presenting mainly the experience of practicing freelance interpreters. The two official languages of Tanzania – English and Swahili – have separate roles in the country. Although most Tanzanians accept English as a necessary medium of intercultural communication, Swahili is perceived as an important part of Tanzanian national identity. It is the country’s lingua franca. On the one hand, Tanzania aims to preserve communication in Swahili; on the other hand, there is an inevitable need for intercultural communication with the rest of the world that grows especially in the context of globalization. The paper focuses on the role, status, education, working languages, conditions of Tanzanian interpreters, and the requirements of local and international clients. The study also creates a broader context that mentions crucial historical moments that have influenced the country’s current character of intercultural communication.

Concept and meaning of national identity

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 243-249
Author(s):  
G. Anuarbekova ◽  
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Y. Bidaibekov ◽  
N. Oshanova ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Education System ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
The Other ◽  
National Characteristics ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of

In this article, the meaning of the concept of national characteristics is scientifically justified and the definition of the meaning of the concept of national characteristics is clarified. The concepts of national peculiarities in the works of foreign and domestic researchers were analyzed, and conclusions were given. The role of national features of training in the section «algorithmization and programming» in the course of computer science is revealed. The characteristic of national characteristics was considered. Taking into account national characteristics in the educational process on the one hand acts as a result, on the other-as a tool to achieve the goal. The national peculiarity is that the school has a connection with life, concretizes the content of the theory through the connection with practice. And also at the organization of activity of pupils by means of realization of substantial aspects of training on differentiation and individualization of all components of pedagogical system. The issue of taking into account the national needs and characteristics of peoples is reflected as an important aspect of improving the education system in schools.

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