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PREDAVANJE na konferenciji Global Hospitality and Leisure

PREDAVANJE na konferenciji Global Hospitality and Leisure

Jasna Čapo sudjelovala je mrežnim putem s izlaganjem na konferenciji Global Hospitality and Leisure Summit: Megaprojects, integrated resorts and diversification in the era of AI (Dubai – online, 5. ožujka 2024.)

U predavanju pod naslovom Detrimental Effects of Tourism in a Small Mediterranean Town izložila je i prodiskutirala učinke koje suvremeni turizma ima na grad Hvar.

The presentation discusses a case of mass tourism in a small island town (3,500 residents) in Croatia, Hvar. After more than a century-long history as a mostly elite and upper middle class destination, the town has recently evolved into a mass tourism destination appealing mostly to party (the destination offers after-beach and night parties from 5a.m. to 5p.m.) and nautical visitors/tourists (2-2,500 big and small boats dock daily in the season, bringing an unknown number of visitors). Adverse impacts of overtourism in Hvar include: irregular construction impinging on urban space and materiality; loss of public space and urban functions; loss of community and urban identity; detrimental effects on ecology; strains on local infrastructure; rising real estate prices and cost of living; overall quality of life deteriorating. The harmful scenario of mass tourism that is happening in Hvar today is strikingly similar to the experience of other Mediterranean (and global) destinations a few decades ago.

Based on ethnographic research methods (participant observation, in-depth formal and informal interviews with various tourism actors), the presentation delves into reasons that prevent the town authorities to successfully curb negative effects of tourism, and manage and reinvent the destination in a sustainable way. The research privileges the voices of „ordinary“ citizens (their opinions, imagination, engagements, capacity for striving toward sustainable tourism and urban future) while weighing them against established socio-political structures (local, regional and national) and their ideas about tourism development and how to manage it. It introduces new aspects into examining the effects of overtourism on a locality: local demographics and space (face-to-face community, smallness), socio-economic variables (economic dependency on tourism, 80 percent of tourist industry is in private hands), local and national politics (nepotism, political favouritism, corruption). Altogether, these factors exacerbate overtourism and preclude that it is managed, down-sized and/or redirected. 

Projekt financira  Agencija RS za raziskovanje

Projekt financira Agencija RS za raziskovanje

www.arrs.si
Projekt financira Hrvatska zaklada za znanost

Projekt financira Hrvatska zaklada za znanost

www.hrzz.hr
Ustanova nositelj projekta: Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku

Ustanova nositelj projekta: Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku

www.ief.hr
Nosilec projekta:  ZRC SAZU, Inštitut za slovensko narodopisje

Nosilec projekta: ZRC SAZU, Inštitut za slovensko narodopisje

https://isn2.zrc-sazu.si/sl#v
Sodelujoča organizacija: Inštitut za novejšo  zgodovino

Sodelujoča organizacija: Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino

www.inz.si
Suradna institucija: Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Odsjek za etnologiju i kulturnu antropologiju

Suradna institucija: Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Odsjek za etnologiju i kulturnu antropologiju

www.ffzg.unizg.hr/etno
Sodelujoča organizacija: Fakulteta za humanistične študije Univerza na Primorskem

Sodelujoča organizacija: Fakulteta za humanistične študije Univerza na Primorskem

www.fhs.upr.si/sl