Cultural experiences are among the key reasons many of us travel, and they are manifold - from performances to exhibitions to festivals - as well as explorations of culture in all its manifestitions, including art, architecture, cuisine, crafts, heritage, music, and traditions across a wide gamut.


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Swiss bliss (and a near miss) at Eurovision 2025 in Basel

  Eurovision Media Centre  Disc-riding 24-year-old Nemo having made history last year as the first non-binary winner of Eurovision for “The Code,” yesterday the 69th edition of world’s largest, longest, and perhaps most anticipated/beloved music competition came back to the country where it was born and first won the contest (with the lovely old chestnut "Refrain"), in 1956. Switzerland´s third largest city (pop. around 177,000). It must´ve been the most exciting thing to happen here since,…

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The eye-opening cultural experience of attending an Omani wedding

  The female security guard discreetly slips me through a side door and gestures for me to sit at the table in the corner. The Arabic music is pulsating and the room is reverberating with the nervous energy of 400 women. Suddenly, the lights dim and everyone turns to watch. A bride, dressed in a Western-style long white wedding gown with matching trailing veil has a death grip on her bouquet of roses as she takes very slow measured steps down the center aisle towards the “Bride’s Love Seat.”…

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European Capitals of Culture 2025: Chemnitz, Gorizia, and Nova Gorica

Ralf Steinberger, Krzysztof Golik, Eleassar Annually for the last 40 years, the cultural poobahs of the European Union have designated one or more of the continent's cities (and as of 2022 it's been three rather than two), as Capitals of Culture, focusing on their own cultural offerings and allowing them to organize a series of wider cultural events (many with a strong pan-European dimension) - which bring in considerable additional revenue; foster urban renewal; and raise their international…

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Exploring Chinese and aboriginal culture in Taiwan

Stanislav Koslovskiy   Officially the Republic of China, this island with a population of around 24 million – just a bit larger than the state of Maryland and just under half the size of Scotland – has been in the news lately both thanks to its controversial January 13 presidential elections and to its perennial potential (and especially in the context of other current crises in Ukraine and Gaza) as a world flashpoint due to mainland China´s obsession with eventually and forcibly annexing it.…

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  • Rossitza Ohridska-Olson January 24, 2010 at 9:37pm
    Maybe I didn't make myself clear. One thing is to travel to see cultural attractions, and another - this being the sole reason to travel. Normally people travel to relax, not work and not be overwhelmed. The ones who make time to go to NYC for a show or see the Metropolitan Museum, are much less than those that decide to go to see NYC in their vacations and visit the museum and go to a show.
  • David Paul Appell January 24, 2010 at 9:22pm
    Well, there are many reasons we travel, and to me at least it's obvious culture does play a big part for many people -- certainly not everyone, but that's not the claim being made. In any case, I know more than a few people who make a point of, say, visiting New York City once a year or at least regularly, to take in the current exhibitions, Broadway shows, and so forth. Many reasons cities make a point of creating an extensive festival schedule is to boost their tourism appeal (Miami included). And why would one go to a city like Florence if the Uffizzi and the many cultural monuments weren't a huge part of its appeal? I have cousins in Italy who have driven to Vienna mostly to attend the Stadtsoper, and I myself once even flew from New York to Reykjavik specifically to see a Buena Vista Social Club concert. So fortunately, its definitely a real and not uncommon phenomenon!
  • Rossitza Ohridska-Olson January 24, 2010 at 7:00pm
    As much as I want to agree with the group description statement that most of people travel to experience culture as a main reason, the fact show just the opposite. People travel to relax, and then, once they are at a destination, they visit cultural attractions, events and interact with the local culture. People who decide to travel to see a cultural attraction, event or to experience local cultures represent only 14% of the US travelers and 40% of the European ones. That still is a significant part of the world traveling population, but unfortunately stating that this is the main reason for travel is not correct.
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