| Abstract [eng] |
Master work examines the cultural tourism development in Ukmerge district. It examines the tourism infrastructure of Ukmergė district, cultural resources and their potential for cultural tourism development . The investigation of Ukmerge district and its population is carried out in this work. It is about an attraction of the cultural resourses and their use for cultural tourism development. The final goal of the work is to identify and analyze the opportunities of cultural tourism development in Ukmerge district. The objectives are to analyse the theoretical concept of cultural tourism; to explore the theories and models of the modern tourism development; to investigate and determine the development of cultural tourism in Lithuania; to analyse a tourist infrastructure and the objects of the cultural heritage of Ukmerge area; to carry out the reseach about the facility of cultural tourism development and assess these facility in Ukmerge district; to make recommendations for cultural tourism developmentin Ukmerge area based on the survey’s results. The work consists of three parts. The first part analyses the theoretical aspects of cultural tourism, discussing the definitions of culture and tourism. The cultural development’s theory and models , cultural tourism and cultural environment are studied in this part. The second part discusses the methodology and organization of the research. The analysis of tourist and cultural resources and their application for cultural tourism development in Ukmerge area are carried out in the third part of the work. The research revealed that Ukmerge district has the numerous cultural resources and cultural heritage, which can be adopted to the development of cultural tourism in Ukmerge district. |
