Cultural Tourism

Bookshops, handicrafts and works of art – cultural tourism in Belgrade

How well do tourism professionals actually know the target group of culturally interested guests? Sometimes you can’t help but get the impression that they are unable to properly assess this target group, either don’t know the treasures in their area of responsibility or don’t realise their relevance for culturally interested groups of guests. Take Belgrade, for example – the Serbian capital is a place where those interested in culture can find everything that makes up European culture: Roman, medieval, Ottoman, Baroque and Habsburg heritage alongside monumental and magnificent buildings from Art Nouveau, Socialism and the present day. Top-class music and art events, festivals and a young, exciting art scene enrich […]

Resurrection of the City of Burnt Books

Is it possible to visit a city like Sarajevo without getting to grips with contemporary history? No, you can’t, certainly not because cultural tourism travel offers the unique opportunity to combine cultural history and contemporary history. If there is an outstanding European example of this, it is Sarajevo in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Like hardly any other city, Sarajevo stands for its multi-ethnicity and multi-culturalism – and rightly so, because anyone strolling through the alleys of the old town comes into direct contact with the city’s Muslim, Christian, Orthodox and Jewish roots. Small shops invite you to rummage through silver and copper handicrafts, oriental sweets pile up as a culinary still life in […]