‘High net worth’ migration in Mauritius: A critical analysis

Author(s): Ramola Ramtohul / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2016

As a small island African nation, Mauritius is famed for its economic success, democratic governance and political stability. The Mauritian government recently embarked on a migration scheme geared towards attracting ‘high net worth’ migrants to the country. The scheme offers foreigners the possibility of obtaining permanent residence and naturalizing as citizens under specifically designed investment and residential programmes devised to attract private investment. While it is undeniable that this scheme has brought considerable foreign direct investment into the country, it has also caused discontent among the local population. Using media reports and interviews of key stakeholders in the press as well as data gathered from semi-structured interviews of key stakeholders, this paper examines the implications of the long term and often, permanent presence of ‘high net worth’ migrants for the country. Public debate on this matter includes issues such as culture clash and diminished access to the beach for Mauritian citizens. Moreover, given the smallness of the country and the fact that land is already scarce, there is fear that facilities granted to foreigners to purchase property will have inflationary consequences and make property unaffordable to the local population.

“Baština” d.o.o., vuna i nove tradicije: Tekstilno rukotvorstvo u Hrvatskoj danas

Author(s): Tanja Bukovcan Žufika / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 16/2004

The article gives a brief outline of the two attempts of revitalization of textile handicrafts in Croatia: first example is the nongovernmental organization 'Ruta' from the Island of Cres, which was founded in 2000 and which is using the wool of the sheep from the island, which would have otherwise been discarded and burned down, to make felt souvenirs. They have used the knowledge of the older inhabitants of the Island of Cres, and the available literature to (re)invent the technique of felt-making, with the final motif to increase the employment in the town of Cres and to, as is stated in the name of their organization, improve the quality of life on the island. The second example is a little company, called 'Baština' (Heritage) LLC, from the village of Koprivnički Ivanec, situated on the northern exit from the town of Koprivnica, in the north-western region of Croatia. They are focused on making souvenirs featuring a famous (in ethnological writings) red embroidery found on the traditional costumes of the rural population of the region, with the intention to preserve it and increase the interest of the local community for its production. Their main goal is to make the embroidery items 'as close to original as possible'. In the conclusion of this article, the author is trying to point to some common elements of the two case studies and thus create a possible base for the analysis of the similar organizations and attempts of the revitalization of textile handicrafts today.

“Green Hotel”: Concepts and Implementation

Author(s): Elena L. ILINA,Konstantin Aleksandrovich MILORADOV,Andrey Pavlovich KOVALTCHUK / Language(s): English / Issue: 34/2019

The authors analyzed the development of the “green hotel” concept, economic and environmental factors affecting the implementation of the “green hotel” concept, proposed an approach to the implementation of the “green hotel” concept, taking into account the regional specifics of the Russian hospitality market.

“THE THIN DELIGHTS OF MOONSHINE AND ROMANCE”. Romance, Tourism, and Realism in Hawthorne’s „The Marble Faun”

Author(s): Carlo Martinez / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2018

Hawthorne’s involvement with the logic of the tourism of his day is a key aspect of his development as a fiction writer. Starting from a discussion of the early sketch “My Visit to Niagara” the article argues that the discourse of tourism, with its protocols and practices, is for Hawthorne a fertile breeding ground and conceptual framework for the elaboration of a new rationale and a new aesthetic for the fiction writing he calls “romance.” It then explores how tourism resonates in the romance which takes it as its central thematic concern: „The Marble Faun”. Hawthorne’s last completed long work of fiction represents a moment of artistic and personal crisis for the author, who finds his notion of romance writing caught in a sort of double bind created by the touristic nature of his stay in Italy. As the plot of the novel suggests, in his efforts to extricate himself from the situation, Hawthorne, envisioned and experimented with a new kind of writing that led him to revise and alter radically the romance form he had previously elaborated in favor of a much more realistic style of fiction.

„All inclusive tourism – boutique tourism” or the struggle for leadershipin the profit on the global tourism market

Author(s): Miglena Temelkova,Iliyan Bakalov / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2015

The struggle for revenue, profit and financial added value, image and customer added value in the global tourism industry today is directly manifested in the intense competition between the mass all inclusive tourism and the unique and individually oriented boutique tourist product. The leadership in profit today is a result of the flexibility, creativity and innovation of the strategy used, and in the opposition"all inclusive tourism -boutique tourist accommodation" the emphasis making a difference is not limited to prices,services, quality and number of tourists only. The essential difference consists in the clash of strategies with different philosophy and target audiences-diversification,differentiation and cost leadership applied by the all-inclusive-tourism strategy as opposed to the strategy of focusing which is typical of boutique hotels and destinations. Despite the different strategic approaches, the goal is one and the same -leadership in terms of generated profits.

„Błękitna polityka” Unii Europejskiej

Author(s): Monika Adamczak-Retecka / Language(s): Polish / Issue: XXXII/2014

In 2007 the Commission presented the European vision for the oceans and seas called“An Integrated Maritime Policy for the European Union” (the Blue Book). The idea has been based on the recognition that all matters related to the oceans and seas are inter-linked and need an integrated approach. The article briefly presents the main action areas set out in the Blue Book and the instruments of particular importance for creating common maritime policies. The emphasis has been placed on the European strategy to alleviate the consequences of the climate change in coastal regions.

„CZAS” W TURYSTYCE: „CZAS INDYWIDUALNY” I „CZAS SPOŁECZNY”

Author(s): Michel Bonneau / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1(2)/2009

The author does a review of the research into tourist activity and concludes that the particular character of tourist behaviour is reflected best in the study of time budgets. He proposes Max Weber's ideal-type method to be used in the analysis. In the conclusions to the article the author presents typical examples of qualitative time (recreation, holidays, tourism).

„DAS UNTERHALTSAME EXOTIKUM“: DIE ROLLE EINIGER UNGARISCHEN VOLKSGRUPPEN IM FREMDENVERKEHR DER ZWISCHENKRIEGSJAHRE

Author(s): Márta FÜGEDI / Language(s): German / Issue: 3-4/1999

Die modernen Organisationsrahmen und das Institutionsnetz des ungarischen Fremdenverkehrs wurden in den 1920-er Jahren ausgestaltet. Im Jahre 1929 wurden das Fremdenverkehrsbüro und Fremdenverkehrsrat gegründet. Die Expansion des Tourismus zielte bald auch auf die Volkskultur, unter den Anziehungskräften des Fremdenverkehrs spielten nämlich das ungarische Dorf und die Volkskunst immer größere Rolle. Obwohl sich die Volkskultur in Ungarn nach dem ersten Weltkrieg und dem Frieden in Trianon in einer starken gesellschaftlichen, wirtschaftlichen und moralischen Krise und Verwandlung befand, gab es doch fertige und billige Möglichkeiten, die der Fremdenverkehr wohl nutzen konnte.

„Na sieradzkich szlakach” 4/88/2007

Author(s): Andrzej Ruszkowski / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 7/2007

Pismo powstało w 1985 r. z inicjatywy działaczy zaangażowanych w pracy społecznej w Polskim Towarzystwie Turystyczno Krajoznawczym. Stowarzyszenie to, o tradycjach sięgających 1906 r. (PTK), przyciągało ludzi aktywnych, uprawiających turystykę i doceniających wiedzę krajoznawczą, a stroniących od form aktywności zdominowanych przez, wszechobecną w tym czasie, komunistyczną Polską Zjednoczoną Partię Robotniczą (PZPR). W Sieradzu istniał wtedy Zarząd Wojewódzki PTTK, w składzie którego funkcjonowały m.in. komisje zajmujące się krajoznawstwem, ochroną zabytków i ochroną przyrody. Plonem ich działalności były gromadzone opisy tras turystycznych, sprawozdania z lustracji zabytków, opisy rezerwatów i pomników przyrody czy różnego rodzaju pozostałości licznych konkursów krajoznawczych. Z biegiem czasu zasoby te stały się źródłem, z którego czerpano do opracowywania, a potem wydawania drukiem opisów zabytków (6 zestawów), biogramów słynnych Sieradzan (kilkadziesiąt opracowań), dwóch numerów ogólnopolskiego pisma „Poznaj Swój Kraj” (nr 7/81 i 8/86), udziału w nagrywaniu audycji radiowych i telewizyjnych.

„Nowe” atrakcje kulturowe i ich wykorzystanie w promocji regionów wypoczynkowych w Polsce (na przykładzie Pojezierza Kaszubskiego)

Author(s): Malgorzata Durydiwka,Katarzyna Duda-Gromada / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2017

The purpose of this paper is to present selected so-called “new” cultural attractions and their use in the promotion on the web pages of gminas located in the Kashubian Lake District (Fig. 2) which is an example of a recreational region. Recreational regions are usually associated with areas of significant natural amenities and with recreational 3S tourism (sun, sea, sand). In recent times, however, tourists’ preferences are changing and 3S tourism is replaced by 3E tourism (education, entertainment, excitement). When creating the tourist offer it becomes more important to increase the share of cultural sites and venues, in particular of the so-called “new” cultural attractions, that is, attractions providing three components: education, entertainment, and excitement (Stasiak, Włodarczyk, 2013). In the Kashubian Lake District such “new” cultural attractions are, for instance, Center for Education and Promotion of the Region in Szymbark, Museum of Kashubian Pottery of the Necel Family in Chmielno, and Archeological Reserve in Węsiory. One can ask whether these tourist attractions are used in promoting the Kashubian Lake District. Research has shown that the analyzed venues and sites are promoted mainly on the official web pages of the gminas of the relevant region. They are also mentioned on the web pages of the neighboring gminas (Fig. 8). This is not surprising, since every gmina is obliged to promote their own tourist attractions, and from the point of view of the tourist, it is the Kashubian Lake District as an entire region that is important, not the individual gminas. In fact, on web portals devoted to the entire region (such as “Szwajcaria Kaszubska” – www.szwajcariakaszubska.eu) one can find information on all the analyzed “new” tourist attractions. Scarcity of information about such well recognized tourist attractions on the web pages of many gminas of this region is an evidence for a lack of cooperation among the gminas as regards the promotion of the entire Kashubian Lake District. It seems therefore that the “new” tourist attractions constitute a still unused potential for the promotion of the entire region on the web pages of the individual gminas.

„Rzeczpospolita Ptasia” jako przykład produktu ekoturystycznego kreowanego w Euroregionie „Pro Europa Viadrina”

Author(s): Sylwia Graja-Zwolinska,Marlena Kulinska,Aleksandra Spychala / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 24/2015

Euroregions have great potential which allows them to create a wide range of different tourism forms, including ecotourism. You can see it among others in “Pro Europa Viadrina” Euroregion, set up in 1993 by three organization: two Polish and one German. The unique natural values exhibited by different forms of the protected areas (among them: national parks “Ujście Warty” and “Unteres Odertal”, numerous landscape parks and nature parks), peculiar cultural values (for instance: watermills in Odra – Sprewa Region), and also the activity of different organizations (among them: Nature Club, Brandenburgia Nature Lovers Union) offers great possibility for ecotourism development. „Rzeczpospolita Ptasia” has been functioned on the Euroregion area since 2002, an initiative which primarily promotes the richness of fowl existing in Warta estuary region. For the last some years the representatives of local society (especially Słońsk municipality inhabitants) created a complete ecological tourism product. This idea has been appreciated on a pan-European forum, winning the first prize in the competition organized by European Commission, searching the best tourism destinations. This article presents the essence and the characteristics of ecotourism product elaborated on the basis of literature analysis moreover by the authors experience gained during field research in the area of Warta estuary. It shows the development of “Rzeczpospolita Ptasia” during the last some years, it emphasizes its main strengths and also stresses the meaning of local entrepreneurship in tourism market specialization. „Rzeczpospolita Ptasia” ecotourism product is an example of good practice which is worth promoting and popularizing so that it could become a source of experience and inspiration for other ecoregions.

„STACJE GÓRSKIE” – ICH GENEZA I EWOLUCJA

Author(s): Andrzej Kowalczyk / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1(2)/2009

The paper discusses the background for the emergence of such ‘mountain resorts’, their types and changes in their mode of operation. Some theoretical and practical issues will be illustrated with examples derived from Europe, North America, Asia and Africa.

„Подаръкът“: изложба на Регионалния исторически музей – София

Author(s): Hristina Grozdanova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 3/2016

Інноваційні підходи до вирішення проблем безпеки в туризмі

Author(s): Vyacheslav Slivenko / Language(s): Ukrainian / Issue: 2/2013

The analysis of the security features of tourism and provide innovative solutions tothe problem

ХИПОТЕЗА ЗА ФАКТОРНИТЕ ЗАВИСИМОСТИ, ОПРЕДЕЛЯЩИ ТЪРСЕНЕТО НА ОФЕРТАТА “КУЛТУРЕН ТУРИЗЪМ” (НА ПРИМЕРА НА БЪЛГАРИЯ)

Author(s): Plamen Patchev / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 4/2009

In the present paper, a try has been made, on the basis of some new sociological researches and up-to-date data from the Bulgarian State Tourism Agency, to clear out some basic factor dependencies in the use of offers from the sector of the so-called “cultural tourism” in Bulgaria. The definition itself of this term is quite wide and provides opportunities for semantic deviations, which however could directly influence some primary market results in selling of services coming out of the “cultural tourism”. Despite of this circumstance, a significant theoretical and practical interest comes in the face of defining in particular of the basic interdependencies between the standard and the “non-standard” marketing factors which set up the market situation of the cultural tourism in the present Bulgarian tourism offer enverionment. As a starting point of his reflections on the matter, the author takes combinations of commonly assumed marketing features of the target group, i.e. education status, incomes, age, advertising and other commonly assumed parameters. Their combination inevitably exercise a decisive influence on the demand and supply of tourism packages in the sector of “cultural tourism”. Alongside with this however, in the case of Bulgaria, it can be found both matches and some discrepancies from the defined in this manner functional dependency, whivh is regarded by the author as a basic one. The deviations analyzed in respect to their causes at this stage and their reflection to the consumer behaviour of the foreign visitors to the Bulgarian tourism market and local tourists provides opportunities for drawing of conclusions for the specific features of this market, for the improvement of the trade policy of the tourism companies and the state institutions in respect to the fuller usage of the cultural tourism as a perspective type of tourism in offering of the country as a famous tourism destination in Southeastern Europe.

Читалищата в съвременното университетско преподаване (Проучване на случай – Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий“)

Author(s): Margarita Karamihova,Petko Petkov / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1/2019

The researches and the university teaching on the topic of chitalishte are among the traditional but barely presented themes in Bulgarian history education. At the same time, the establishment and functioning of the chitalishta as an active element of the system, which will organize the future of the independent state (19th century), continues to focus the interest of the researchers of Bulgarian modernity.The article comments the contemporary teaching concerning the role of the chitalishta in modern Bulgarian history and culture at the University of Veliko Tarnovo, which gave rise to the necessity of realizing "Find a Treasure!" project. The results of the project and its potential for future national research are presented.

Щодо питання брендінгу міст в Україні

Author(s): Maria Chernets / Language(s): Ukrainian / Issue: 1/2016

Objective: This research is conducted to analyze the experience and current trends of city branding in Ukraine. Research methodology. The descriptive, analytical and comparative methods are used. This methodological approach allows to reveal and analyze the formation of national experience of city branding such as brands of Kyiv, Lviv, Chernihiv and other cities, to compare their brand strategies and identify their positive and negative sides. Scientific novelty lies in the actual value of the city as a geocultural object and involving branding techniques to the process of urban identity development. Investigation of functional components that shape a national brand through city branding. Conclusions. Today in Ukraine there are all prerequisites for creating and developing vibrant and powerful city brands. However, there are some problems that prevent constructing a powerful city and national brand. Lviv as a brand is the best example of national city branding. The capital of Ukraine Kiev is one of the most interesting tourist destinations, which requires coherent and consistent applying of city branding techniques. Chernihiv is a city with beautiful city logo that reflects its cultural identity and forms a unique geocultural image,. but at the same time promotion of the brand and its representation is not sufficient.