Human Transformation in the Transition Economies

Özsoy, İsmail

doi:10.1300/j097v12n04_04

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“…After all, the three leadership periods since 1991 appeared as 'fervently nationalistic; a quasi-continuation of the former communist regime; progressively neoliberal; and often as a hybrid of the three' (Tatum, 2009, p. 159). But the period of Saakashvili most strongly introduced the country's economy to neo-liberalism and the orientation towards the West (Özsoy, 2007;Gumppenberg & Steinbach, 2010). (Steinmetzer, 2006;Gretschko, 1972;Salia, 1980).…”

Section: -2010: Saakashvilimentioning

confidence: 99%

Political-economic transition in Georgia and its implications for tourism in Svaneti

Voll¹,

Mosedale²

2015

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Private tourism entrepreneurship relies on special knowledge of the service sector with a strong focus on individual action and a general service mentality. The organization and regulation of tourism in post-socialist European countries experienced a shift from being state-driven to being determined by individual entrepreneurs. Yet in some cases, the adoption of the new entrepreneurial business principles is contested by different cultural understandings of how tourism should be 'produced'. With examples from the Caucasus Mountains in Georgia (Svaneti) we will demonstrate that these different understandings can play a major role in creating barriers for developing community-based tourism. Shortly after the transition to the market economy, a number of different small-scale, community-based tourism projects emerged, with individual entrepreneurship contesting the traditional values of hospitality in these regions (predominantly based on religious and 'tribal' values and norms rather than purely on entrepreneurial values).The methods used for this preliminary study of post-socialist tourism development included a short-term, mobile ethnography consisting of semi-structured interviews of tourism producers in the region, participant observation, as well as mapping occupancy of buildings according to unoccupied, agriculture and agritourism and second homes categories based on the condition of the gardens. Further changes in the political-economic framework have now shifted the focus towards larger-scale tourism developments supported by public-private partnerships. This paper analyses the impacts of these political-economic changes on the development of community-based tourism in Svaneti and explores in particular the friction between collective traditions and individual entrepreneurship in the experience economy of transition countries and its relationship with regional economic growth and rural depopulation. , 91-103 zajednice, u kojima je individualno preduzetništvo počelo da konkuriše tradicionalnim vrednostima ugostiteljstva u ovim krajevima (uglavnom zasnovanim na verskim i "plemenskim" vrednostima i normama, pre nego na čisto preduzetničkim). Metodi korišćeni za ovu preliminarnu studiju o postsocijalističkom razvoju turizma uključuju kratkotrajnu mobilnu etnografiju, koja se sastojala od polustruktuiranog intervjua turističkih ponuđača u regionu, opažanja učesnika, kao i mapiranja useljenosti objekata -od neuseljenih, preko poljoprivrednih i agrourističkih do kuća druge kategorije, prema stanju uređenosti dvorišta. Dalje izmene u političko-ekonomskom okviru su u međuvremenu pomerile fokus ka širem turističkom razvoju, uz podršku javno-privatnih partnerstava. Ovaj rad analizira uticaje tih političko-ekonomskih promena na razvoj turizma podržanog od strane zajednice u Svanetiju i naročito istražuje frikciju između kolektivnih tradicija i individualnog preduzetništvau ekonomiji doživljaja u zemljama u razvoju, kao i njihov odnos prema regionalnom ekonomskom rastu i ruralnoj depopulaciji.: 3 3 4 . 7 2 ...

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confidence: 99%