Last summer
I was in Croatia. We were living in small city Podgora. It is a city where 90%
of people are working in touristic side. This is a community which is benefited
from tourism. In my opinion it’s difficult for this people to earning money
only from tourist. Tourist season may end in case of bad
weather, and then the people will stay without work.
I
live in city Zielona Gora, in Poland. We are touristic city only in summer and
early autumn. Zielona Gora is a town located 60 km from the German border.
Since 1314 in our city is Wine Festival. Every year after the harvest the grapes in September, the whole city celebrates for a week. A lot of Germans come to Zielona Gora to celebrate with us and drinking good wine.
During Wine
Festival there is a lot of stalls. People are selling souvenirs, local wine and
vodka, sweets made from grapes. Every pub is open all night, tourists and locals
are going to restaurant for a dinner. Then people going for a concert or amusement park. Party
starts every day at 10 o’clock morning and finished next day at 6:00 a.m.
The city council
started promoting Wine Festival in German and Czech Republic cities which are
near our border. Thanks for this we have more foreign tourist.
With tourist “coming”
money. Now government has more money to improvement of tourism in Zielona Gora.
3 years ago local artist prepared brass figurine “Bachusik”. It’s
likeness of Bachus – Dionysus who was “god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine,
of ritual madness and religious ecstasy in Greek mythology”.
During Wine
Festival to Zielona Gora come a lot of people. City is really crowdy. Our
population grows from 120 000 people to 200 000. During that time we
have more buses, city council runs additional bus line. For youngest we have
small train in city center.
Our local
guide organizes tours of a city and shows people beautiful places of our city. Not far
from Zielona Gora is city Swiebodzin, where is monument of Jesus Christ. City
council runs new bus line from our city to that monument. There are restaurants
and churches where people can spend good time in good atmosphere.
Thanks
to tourism, our city is developing better. Local manufacturers and sellers have more
work = more money. Thanks to foreign tourists the city has
more money and is better promoted abroad. A lot of Germans
company know about Zielona Gora and decided to invest money.
Unfortunately
our tourist season is only from June till September. City council has to think
how to expand season for other months and make city more attractive in winter. We have hills and ski lift but it
is still not enough to reduce unemployment in winter.
Come to our city, Zielona Gora, and be part of our touristic development :)
