In tourism, there are big changes both on the supply side and on the side of tourists. In the literature, modern trends in the field of tourism are a very common topic and many authors associate these trends with the broader social concept of postmodernism. In my master's thesis, I focused on the aspect of this concept, which refers to luxury tourism in Slovenia. Based on sources and interviews with some tourism representatives of the two destinations, I found that providers are increasingly aware of modern trends that can be associated with postmodernity, but in practice there are still gaps that prevent the luxury tourism of the two Slovenian destinations to reach its potential in full. In the empirical part of the thesis, I used qualitative research method of interviews conducted with directors of public institutes for tourism and culture in Rogaška Slatina and Podčetrtek, representatives of some tourist providers of these destinations and a representative of a tourist agency from Rogaška Slatina. In the end, I made a comparison between the answers of the interviewees of one and the other destination and assessed which destination has more in common with the theory of postmodern luxury tourism. I also linked the findings to the luxury tourism strategy of the Slovenian Tourist Board and qualitatively assessed which destination is more in line with it.
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