Cultural Tourism in Cultural Corridors, Itineraries, Areas and Cores Networked

Abstract

Cultural Corridors are essential for the development of cultural tourism. Cultural heritage outside corridors formed powerful cores and areas in Bulgaria's territory that can work in network and wedge to European corridors. This will be implemented in full interaction, complementary actions and will be sought synergy, innovation, preservation of culture and spirituality. This concept is illustrated on the basis of several examples. Regional network of cultural tourism products integrating cultural, tourist and travel information infrastructure for cultural itineraries will create conditions for flexible regulation of tourist flows. Instead of limited number of incremental tourist destinations that overload the main cultural sites it will be offered networks of related thematic destinations. They will evenly distribute tourist flows satisfying tourist interest in full range of cultural objects and will express the cultural identity of the territories. These tourism products will be thematic, organized around certain recurrent themes related to the topics of European cultural itineraries. In this way they get clear European dimensions and will be integrated into the European network. This is the chance an anonymous object to receive European value associated with the relevant topic. It will be stimulated new ideas and tools for innovation in consumption of heritage that is a challenge in the context of local socio-economic and cultural development. In these cores and areas of cultural heritage, natural monuments, ecosystems and collections of art, traditions and crafts can be formed also tourism clusters improving local economy and supporting entrepreneurship.