Tourism and Authenticity in the Czech Villages of the Romanian Banat

Authors

  • Karina Hoření , Masaryk University, Faculty of Social Studies, Department of Environmental Studies; Brno, Czech Republic. , Masarykova univerza, Fakulteta za družbene študije, Oddelek za okoljske študije; Brno, Češka republika.
  • Radoslava Krylová , Masaryk University, Faculty of Social Studies, Department of Environmental Studies; Brno, Czech Republic. , Masarykova univerza, Fakulteta za družbene študije, Oddelek za okoljske študije; Brno, Češka republika.
  • Zbyněk Ulčák , Masaryk University, Faculty of Social Studies, Department of Environmental Studies; Brno, Czech Republic. , Masarykova univerza, Fakulteta za družbene študije, Oddelek za okoljske študije; Brno, Češka republika.
  • Pavel Klvač , Masaryk University, Faculty of Social Studies, Department of Environmental Studies; Brno, Czech Republic. , Masarykova univerza, Fakulteta za družbene študije, Oddelek za okoljske študije; Brno, Češka republika.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18690/rg.5.2.4035

Keywords:

tourism, authenticity, Banat, myth, landscape character

Abstract

In the 1820s, several thousand Czechs moved to the Carpathian Mountains region near the Danube river. They founded six villages. Strict ethnic endogamy helped preserve their cultural distinction. Nowadays these villages are visited by tourists from the Czech Republic. Visits are motivated by the search for both “traditional” rural landscape and lifestyle. The paper analyses the ways of how tourists perceive the rural landscape and lifestyle, how their perceptions vary and how they influence their behaviour. It is assumed that there is a sentiment for traditional, pre-modern world. This sentiment is used for tourism promotion there. Therefore the “harmonic cultural landscape” does not only have ecological and cultural value, but its image becomes a commodity in the tourism industry.

Author Biographies

  • Karina Hoření, , Masaryk University, Faculty of Social Studies, Department of Environmental Studies; Brno, Czech Republic., Masarykova univerza, Fakulteta za družbene študije, Oddelek za okoljske študije; Brno, Češka republika.

    E-mail: 182483@mail.muni.cz

  • Radoslava Krylová, , Masaryk University, Faculty of Social Studies, Department of Environmental Studies; Brno, Czech Republic., Masarykova univerza, Fakulteta za družbene študije, Oddelek za okoljske študije; Brno, Češka republika.

    E-mail: 209613@mail.muni.cz

  • Zbyněk Ulčák, , Masaryk University, Faculty of Social Studies, Department of Environmental Studies; Brno, Czech Republic., Masarykova univerza, Fakulteta za družbene študije, Oddelek za okoljske študije; Brno, Češka republika.

    E-mail: ulcak@fss.muni.cz  

  • Pavel Klvač , , Masaryk University, Faculty of Social Studies, Department of Environmental Studies; Brno, Czech Republic., Masarykova univerza, Fakulteta za družbene študije, Oddelek za okoljske študije; Brno, Češka republika.

    E-mail: klvac@fss.muni.cz

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Published

31.12.2010

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 2 (2010)

Section

Scientific Articles

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Copyright (c) 2010 Karina Hoření, Radoslava Krylová, Zbyněk Ulčák, Pavel Klvač

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Hoření, K. ., Krylová, R. ., Ulčák, Z. ., & Klvač , P. . (2010). Tourism and Authenticity in the Czech Villages of the Romanian Banat . Journal for Geography, 5(2), 141-147. https://doi.org/10.18690/rg.5.2.4035