2021.17.2.78-94
Corina Florina Tatar, Balaj Iulian-Gheorghe, Novicov Ramona, Kuti Ludovic, Dehoorne Olivier, Sopheap Theng, Linc Ribana
TOTALITNÉ DEDIČSTVO AKO PROSTRIEDOK ROZVOJA CESTOVNÉHO RUCHU V MESTE ȘTEI (RUMUNSKO)
TOTALITARIAN HERITAGE AS A MEANS TOWARDS TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN THE TOWN OF ȘTEI (ROMANIA)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24040/GR.2021.17.2.78-94
CITATION: Tătar, C.F., Iulian-Gheorghe, B., Novicov, R., Kuti, L., Dehoorne, O., Sopheap, T., Linc, R. 2021. TOTALITNÉ DEDIČSTVO AKO PROSTRIEDOK ROZVOJA CESTOVNÉHO RUCHU V MESTE ȘTEI (RUMUNSKO). Geografická Revue. [online]. Banská Bystrica, 2021, 17 (2), 78-94 [cit. 2021-12-18]. Dostupné na: https://doi.org/10.24040/GR.2021.17.2.78-94
Abstract:
The interest in totalitarian tourism gained importance during the last 20 years for the western tourists to see how it was to live behind the Iron Curtain in Eastern Europe (Caraba, 2011). The totalitarian heritage can be used by many tourists as sites or locations for remembering and remembrance. During the socialist period, authorities built towns served to showcase socialism: they represented the workers' towns within the workers' state. Nonethless, after the fall of the socialist system, many towns fell into a state of economic uncertainty, but also had to try to redefi-ne their place identity (Balockaite, 2012), an identity which the town of Ștei is trying to recapture by capitalizing on the old totalitarist buildings from the town. In this scope, the paper proposes to capitalize the socialist heritage by a themed tour along the old buildings dated since the 1952-'56 and thus contributing to the town's tourist development overall. The aim of the paper is to highlight the totalita-rian heritage potential to increase tourism opportunities in Stei. In this scope, an inventory of all the totalitarian heritage attractions of the town was carried out so as to highlight the town's potential for this niche tourism and to keep the totalita-rian buildings memory alive through the proposal of a themed tour. Furtheron this step allowed a targeting and segmenting of the totalitarian heritage and historic buildings' past and current functionality and a proposal of including memorabilia within the developing museum of the town.
Keywords: totalitarian heritage, Stei, tourism analysis, development proposals