Cultural Heritage as a Tourist Resource for the Development of Cultural Tourism in Georgia

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201215.352How to use a DOI?

Keywords

cultural tourism, cultural heritage, intercultural communication, tourist resource, cultural objects

Abstract

The article is devoted to considering the features of the cultural heritage and cultural and historical values of tourist sites as a tourist resource for the development of cultural tourism in Georgia, which promotes the sustainable development of the country. Per the analysis of the structure of visits to Georgia, a significant part of inbound tourists is likely to introduce a cognitive element in their trip. This includes visiting and getting acquainted with the objects of the country’s cultural heritage. Georgia’s cultural tourism is studied, which is a type of tourism in which the cultural heritage enhances the tourist territory’s attractiveness, which is reflected in the stimulation and motivation of new cultural experience and intercultural communication of tourists. The article examines the dynamics of the arrival of excursion tourists within the framework of international tourism and the structure of incoming international tourism in Georgia by regions of the world, in which Europe occupies 84.5%. The statement is confirmed that the country’s cultural potential has a good resource base, which allows providing high-quality tourist services for cultural tourism. The article notes the main trends in the growth and strengthening of cultural tourism in the period 2014-2018, taking into account the formation of a unique, authentic experience of tourists based on familiarization with the objects of Georgia’s cultural heritage.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Elena S. Bogomolova
AU  - Ana Dovlatova
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/18
TI  - Cultural Heritage as a Tourist Resource for the Development of Cultural Tourism in Georgia
BT  - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Inter-cultural Communication (ICELAIC 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 315
EP  - 319
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201215.352
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201215.352
ID  - Bogomolova2020
ER  -