Skuodo raj. masinių amatų renginių lankytojų elgsena: nuomonių analizė

Abstract

Participating in a community life and large events is a very important social part of human being. Crafts events stimulate cultural tourism in a place, as well as help to make the place well known for regional, national and international extent. Visitors’ attitude to traditional large events- Crafts and swordcraft festival “Apuole 854’’ and autumn holiday “Skouda bouzes juomarks” is shown in this paper. The aim of this paper is to analyze visitors opinion of large crafts events of Skuodas district and its’ distribution to multiple event aspects. The conception of event is discussed in this paper; also the aims of analyzed crafts events, traditional unchangeable motives and ideas of events’ dynamics are shown. During this research visitors opinion about important crafts events of Skuodas district and its’ impact on tourism development is found, as well as its’ strengths and weaknesses. Visitors’ thoughts and opinions are classified in some groups and analyzed by separated elements. Findings of research helped to find out that market demand is high for large crafts events in Skuodas district both in Lithuania and Baltic countries. Even demand of visitors from wider geographical region was fixed. Recommendations of visitors’ for crafts events and their organization were fixed, besides that cultural and social aspects were analyzed.