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To apply for a research degree, please make sure you fulfill the entry requirements and then complete the online research degree application form and upload your supporting documents.
You should have a good honours degree (2:1 or above) or masters degree or equivalent in the relevant subject area.
International applicants should be aware of our research degree English language requirements
The aim of the presented critical interpretive study is to investigate how, in Bulgaria, traditions are represented through and via tourism, and how understandings of values, images, icons and symbols of the nation are conceivably being invented, transformed, and produced as part of the ‘new tourism experience’ in the complex globalizing and glocalizing context of the postmodern/ postcolonial/ postindustrial world.
The researcher critically examines the power of tourism to ordinarily exhibit, legitimate, authenticate, specific values, icons, symbols and views on nationality and heritage in Bulgaria. The study deals with the ways in which traditions tradition have been constructed, deconstructed, and reconstructed in the globalized world via tourism. The researcher explores the scale and scope of the meditative authorities of tourism in conveying what comes to be known about history and nature in both local and global contexts and as part of a new tourism experience. The above stated issues are examined within the framework of bricoleurship and the research utilizes a selection of methodological approaches and methods that emerged during the research process to investigate the matters explored in this study such as, testimonios, interviews, and discourse analyses.
For the proposed critical analysis of these issues, the study has the following three aims:
Aim 1: Representation of Tradition through Tourism
To critically examine the power of tourism to ordinarily exhibit, legitimate, authenticate specific values, icons, symbols and views on nationality and heritage in Bulgaria.
Aim 2: The Ambiguous Character of Traditions and Transitions
To investigate the ways in which traditions have been constructed, deconstructed and reconstructed in the globalized world via tourism.
Aim 3: Tourism as Mediator of Traditions
To explore the scale and scope of the mediative authorities of tourism in conveying what comes to be known about history and nature in both local and global contexts and as part of a new tourism experience.
