Geography of Tourism in Slovenia

Cigale, Dejan; Gosar, Anton

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“…And to some extent, this also applies to tourism studies.The study of geography is offeredin three Slovenian public universities(Ljubljana, Maribor and Primorska). All three Departments of Geography pay special academic attention to geography of tourism, and the related research in tourism studies (Cigale 2019, Cigale andGosar 2017). Pedagogical activities include several study trips and fieldwork, conducted also in the countries of Southeastern Europe.…”

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Study trips and fieldwork in sloveniantourism studies: experience from Turstica

2022

Geo Rev

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The education system in Slovenia is generally supportive of study trips or school excursions, which are organised already at primary and secondary school level to give the pupils and students an additional opportunity to learn about their homeland and neighbouring regions/countries. Study trips and fieldwork are an essential form of the study process in Slovenian higher education as well. This is especially true for the field of geography and its related disciplines. The review of higher education programmes of tourism studies (in the period before the COVID-19 pandemic) shows the importance of practical training and acquiring different competencies through study trips and fieldwork – either while learning about business tourism systems or tourist offer in the selected destinations. In paper, we focus on the experiences of conducting study trips and fieldwork at the University of Primorska, Faculty of Tourism Studies - Turistica, which stands as the only higher education institution in Slovenia with a degree in tourism at all three levels (BSc, MA and PhD). Study trips are an integral part of the curriculum, especially in the first cycle programmes, dominated by the cultural tourism study programme, where humanistic views and approaches in tourism take substantial part (e.g., anthropology, ethnology and geography). At Turistica, various study trips and fieldwork take place, ranging from one-day or two-day excursions in the local and regional environment or across Slovenia, to multi-day study tours abroad. The most complex example is a one-week study trip to Prague and Berlin, which is a study to which we pay special attention in the paper. It is a successful model of fieldwork, which will, with appropriate modifications, also be used as a model for shaping and arranging the future study trip of Turistica’s students to Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Study trips and fieldwork in sloveniantourism studies: experience from Turstica

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Analysis of visual elements of leisure attractiveness of Slovenian landscapes

Cigale

2021

Geogr. vestn.

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This paper discusses the attractiveness of the Slovenian landscape as a leisure space. It focuses in particular on relationship of attractiveness with landscape diversity and naturalness. As a starting point, the study of Perko et al. (2017) was used in which the authors identified the most and the least diverse Slovenian areas, i.e. landscape hotpots and coldspots. An online survey was conducted using photographs taken in selected hotspots and coldspots. Respondents were asked to rate the attractiveness of the landscapes shown in the photographs as destinations for a leisure trip. The attractiveness of the landscapes did not differ depending on whether they were in a hotspot or coldspot. On the other hand, the results clearly indicate the higher attractiveness of landscapes in which relatively natural landscape elements predominate. Prispevek obravnava privlačnost slovenske pokrajine kot prostočasnega prostora. Posebej se osredotoča na povezavo privlačnosti s pokrajinsko raznolikostjo in naravnostjo. Kot izhodišče je bila uporabljena raziskava Perka in sodelavcev (2017), v kateri so avtorji določili najbolj in najmanj raznolika območja Slovenije, tj. pokrajinske vroče in mrzle točke. Izvedena je bila spletna anketna raziskava, v kateri so bile uporabljene fotografije, posnete v izbranih vročih in mrzlih točkah. Anketiranci so bili naprošeni, da ocenijo privlačnost pokrajin na fotografijah kot ciljev izletov. Privlačnost pokrajin se ni razlikovala glede na njihovo lego znotraj vročih ali mrzlih točk. Na drugi strani rezultati jasno kažejo večjo privlačnost pokrajin, v katerih prevladujejo razmeroma naravni pokrajinski elementi.

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Geography of Tourism in Slovenia

Cited by 2 publications

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Study trips and fieldwork in sloveniantourism studies: experience from Turstica

Study trips and fieldwork in sloveniantourism studies: experience from Turstica

Analysis of visual elements of leisure attractiveness of Slovenian landscapes

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