Journals / Ejovoc (Electronic Journal of Vocational Colleges) / 2013 / Cilt: 3 - Sayı: 2
What Happened? What Will Be? - A Path-Dependency Analysis of Donated Tourism Projects in South East Europe
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Abstract
Theoretical background: It is believed that term “Balkanisation” was used for the first time in 1860-ties by English colonial aspirants to describe socio-economic development status of permanently divided Sudan, and, of course, that being a base for foreign intervention that would bring a peace, prosperity and democracy for local tribes once reconciled. Now, the Balkans are said to be the region under permanent institutional reconstruction. The term “path-dependence” means "history matters“ which reduces simply to "everything has causes" (Pierson 2004:web). So, the purposes of this paper is to describe path-dependency expected perspectives, once it comes to understanding current situation in how do residents of post-conflict areas communicate. Methods: International donor organised for a certain tourism development projects implementation in the Eastern Western Balkans. This paper is organised from the perspective of foreign researcher - bricoleur, as a triangulation of a field data in order to justify both: the evaluations and the conclusions. Results, findings: Communicological analysis of field action research cases of tourist programs donated by international community, based on path-dependency expectations, indicates that whenever one has situation of aid-receiver communicating internally in a way of dealing with intrasocial re-distribution of national wealth, a interest in tourist projects economically connoted is infinitesimal. Probably, as long as it takes until perceived gains of such “internal” projects are higher in comparison to “external” benefits.
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