Tradition and History as Building Blocks for Tourism. The Middle Ages as a Modern Tourism Attraction
Tradition and History as Building Blocks for Tourism. The Middle Ages as a Modern Tourism Attraction

Summary/Abstract: This paper examines how tradition and history are being used in the tourism industry in general and especially how the Middle Ages have become a trend in tourism. As examples in this paper are the Finnish city of Turku, and how it uses the Middle Ages in its tourism, and the Dracula tourism in Romania. This paper also examines how places and tourist sights function as narrative spaces, how a castle or a ruin for example is just silent objects without the complementing narrative. This paper also focuses on the idea and concept of authenticity and its use in tourism as well as the idea of tourist sights as narrative places.

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