ROMAN ANTIQUITY IN SLOVENIA: ITS PLACE IN HISTORY AND TOURISM TEXTBOOKS AN UNEXPLORED EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY?
ROMAN ANTIQUITY IN SLOVENIA: ITS PLACE IN HISTORY AND TOURISM TEXTBOOKS AN UNEXPLORED EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY?

Summary/Abstract: This interdisciplinary-orientated article focuses on two principal issues: 1. the treatment of the Roman era in today's Slovenia in history textbooks for gymnasiums and secondary technical schools, and 2. the position of cultural tourism in tourism textbooks in secondary schools of catering and tourism, which immediately raises the question of how much attention is paid to the Roman era in Slovenia in the context of cultural tourism in the discussed textbooks. The history textbooks for gymnasiums present the Roman era in Slovenia in sufficient detail. In contrast, the textbooks for secondary technical and vocational schools present the era - seen as a whole - in too general outlines and omit certain important facts. Cultural tourism is covered in sufficient detail in tourism textbooks for secondary schools to highlight its prominent role within tourism as a whole, but the Roman era in Slovenia is hardly ever mentioned. This reticence is understandable given the purpose of the tourism textbooks in question: to present the structure of modern tourism, and in this context, cultural tourism, together with ancient monuments in Slovenia, has a limited role. The fact is that secondary school tourism students do not get enough knowledge about the tourism potential of antiquity in Slovenia from general tourism textbooks, and those students who are interested in this period and would like to choose cultural tourism as their career option should look elsewhere for adequate knowledge in this field.

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