red tourism
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RED TOURISM
Martynas RadzevičiusVilnius University
Lithuania
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INTRODUCTION
Education:• 2008 – 2013 – BA & MBA / Vilnius University• Since 2014 – PhD Student / Vilnius UniversityExperience:• Since 2012 – Development manager / Cozywood.com• Since 2009 – General manager / Open Culture
More – lt.linkedin.com/in/martynasr
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PLAN
• Tourism resource• Red tourism definition• Types of red tourism• Heritage industry and its development• Q&A
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TOURISM RESOURCE
What is the main tourism’s resource?
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HERITAGE
- Combines tangible and intangible heritage areas: physical and spiritual elements that give meaning and specific values to the site, creates a local spirit or genius loci.
- UNESCO Quebec deklaration, 2008
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Is it the same?
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RED TOURISM (1)
• Dark tourism (thanatourism, black spots)• Heritage tourism• Communist heritage tourism
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RED TOURISM (2)Dark tourism - the phenomenon which encompasses the presentation and consumption (by visitors) of real and commodified death and disaster sites
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RED TOURISM (3)
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RED TOURISM (4)
• Communist heritage tourism involves visits to places associated with the Communist or socialist past and present or to sites which represent or commemorate that past or present.
• Communist heritage tourism can also be defined as the consumption of sites and sights associated with the former communist regimes;
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RED TOURISM (5)
- is a themed tourism activity of learning, sightseeing, and nostalgia in communist heritage sites which commemorate past communist revolutionary events, heroes, and leaders;
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TYPES OF RED TOURISMGeographical Hystorical PoliticalCEE countries Communist
heritage tourism*Autocratic regimes
Former Soviet Union
Socialism tourism Socialism
Mid. /South Asia Socialism tourism SocialismChina, N. Korea and
CubaRed tourism Ongoing
Communism
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RED vs COMMUNIST TOURISM
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HERITAGE INDUSTRY
HERITAGE RESOURCES
HERITAGE AGENCIES
ORIENTATION
Accumulation
HERITAGE INDUSTRY
HERITAGE PRODUCTS
SELECTION
OTHER RESOURCES
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Thank you!
Q&A