Cultural Tourism as a Sphere of Implementation of Leisure Technologies and Virtual Experience Cover Image

Культурний туризм як сфера реалізації дозвіллєвих технологій та віртуального досвіду
Cultural Tourism as a Sphere of Implementation of Leisure Technologies and Virtual Experience

Author(s): Stepan Ivanovich Dychkovskyy
Subject(s): Cultural history, Culture and social structure , Social Informatics, Sociology of Culture, Tourism
Published by: Національна академія керівних кадрів культури і мистецтв
Keywords: cultural tourism; tourist product; material heritage; tourist technologies; cultural services;

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the article is the study and formation of a tourist product and tourist destination based on the use of cultural heritage and the image of the territory. The methodology is based on the concept and theoretical conclusions in the field of cultural studies, aesthetics, philosophy, and tourism science and art history. The scientific novelty of the article is the development of a new model of cultural tourism, where the production of services is transformed by the technology of servicing and increasing the comfort of acts of acquaintance with certain objects into the technology of providing the sum of impressions based on the emotional, sensual and active experience of understanding the culture of destination. Conclusions. Studies of recent decades have highlighted the growing search for cultural ―experience‖ and the development of various segments of the demand for cultural tourism and the growing integration of cultural tourism with other tourism sectors such as religious tourism, gastronomic tourism, and literary tourism.