Beneath The Ruin Bars: A Philosophical And Empirical Journey Through The Multi-Layered Tourism Milieu Of Budapest's Party District [védés előtt]
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Tartalom: https://phd.lib.uni-corvinus.hu/1448/
Archívum: Corvinus Doktori disszertációk archívum
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Témakör = Kereskedelem, Turizmus, Vendéglátás
Típus = Disszertáció
Cím:
Beneath The Ruin Bars: A Philosophical And Empirical Journey Through The Multi-Layered Tourism Milieu Of Budapest's Party District [védés előtt]
Létrehozó:
Bal, Damla
Dátum:
2025
Téma:
Kereskedelem, Turizmus, Vendéglátás
Tartalmi leírás:
Urban tourism transforms not only the economic and physical landscape of cities but also the affective, symbolic, and perceptual dimensions of place. This dissertation examines the tourism milieu of Budapest’s District VII, focusing on Inner Erzsébetváros, the historically Jewish Quarter, as a site of both tension and possibility. Drawing on a multi-layered conceptual model that integrates ontological situatedness, epistemological framing, phenomenological engagement, and anthropological mediation, the study explores how tourism is co-produced, experienced, and governed in a post-socialist urban context. The research employs a two-phase qualitative design. Phase 1 combines visual analysis of student-generated photographic data with interviews of tourism professionals, entrepreneurs, and public-sector stakeholders to capture how the district is perceived, symbolically represented, and socially experienced. Phase 2 focuses on cultural program directors and institutional staff, examining how municipal actors respond to tourism saturation through creative programming and community engagement. Analyses are informed by constructivist grounded theory, phenomenology, and interpretivist approaches, emphasizing the relational, embodied, and contested nature of urban space. Key findings reveal a district characterized by overlapping and often conflicting place imaginaries. Tourism generates economic benefits and global visibility, yet also produces social fatigue, spatial saturation, and contested identities. Visual and narrative data highlight the dominance of ruin bars and nightlife branding alongside emerging initiatives rooted in cultural care, participatory engagement, and creative tourism. Cultural institutions function as epistemic mediators, balancing local identity and heritage preservation against global tourism pressures, yet structural and regulatory constraints limit their transformative capacity. The study demonstrates that the tourism milieu is neither fixed nor homogeneous; it is a co-constructed, multi-actor field shaped by perception, governance, and symbolic labor. By foregrounding experiential, ethical, and participatory dimensions of urban tourism, the dissertation advances theory and practice, proposing pathways to reframe District VII from a nightlife-dominated economy toward a culturally grounded, socially inclusive, and creatively co-produced urban space. The findings offer transferable insights for urban cities worldwide seeking to reconcile economic vibrancy with social sustainability in tourism-intensive contexts.
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Disszertáció
NonPeerReviewed
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Azonosító:
Bal, Damla (2025) Beneath The Ruin Bars: A Philosophical And Empirical Journey Through The Multi-Layered Tourism Milieu Of Budapest's Party District [védés előtt]. Doktori (PhD) értekezés, Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem, Gazdálkodástani Doktori Iskola.
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