| Abstract: |
This study presents the results of a ten year monitoring programme on cultural
and tourism development in the city of Sibiu. Over the ten year research
period the programme expanded to cover a wide range of data sources, including
resident and visitor surveys, stakeholder interviews and secondary statistical
data. The research started at a fairly low level with studies of single events
in the cultural agenda of Sibiu. The programme was significantly expanded in
2007 thanks to the staging of the European Capital of Culture in the city.
Support from the ECOC allowed the scale of the research to be increased. Since
2007 the Lucian Blaga University has continued to collect data using its own
resources. This study is unique as it is probably the first long-term study of
the cultural and tourism development of a city in a former Socialist country
in Central and Eastern Europe. The data in the current report build on and
extend the analysis provided in the earlier report “The Impact of the 2007
European Cultural Capital in Sibiu: A long term perspective”, published in
2010. This research includes a number of different elements: regular surveys
of residents and visitors, analysis of tourism flows and other statistics,
Interviews with stakeholders in the city, Data from the regular surveys
carried out by ATLAS in other parts of Europe. This report provides a summary
of some of the major findings of the research to date, mainly based on the
resident and visitor surveys. |