Cultural Attractions In The Function Of Development Of Cultural Tourism In The Territory Of The City Of Orahovica

Nowadays, a cultural tourism market is being rapidly expended, and cultural tourism is categorized among the fastest-growing tourism sectors. Cultural contents of a tourist destination, as a motive for tourist travels, encompass specific elements representing a reflection of culture of a nation, consisting of culturohistorical monuments, archeological sites, cultural institutions, cultural manifestations and various anthropogenic factors inciting a motivation for an acquaintance with the customs, tradition, popular art, traditional crafts and trades, gastronomy and other cultural characteristics of a region. The recognition of cultural contents as tourist motives centralizes an issue of structuralization of cultural offer and its adjustment to an overall tourism offer of a receptive area, and thereby also the issue of promotion of cultural tourism as a specialized tourism form, which should satisfy a cultural tourists’ need for an active vacation through versatile forms of selective offer and through an enrichment of knowledge and cultural experiences. The purpose of this paper is directed toward an analysis of realistic and potential cultural attractions in the function of cultural tourism development in the territory of the City of Orahovica. As a protected monument of the highest category among numerous culturohistorical monuments and profane and sacral edifices of the City of Orahovica, to which history has left an abundance of historical and cultural legacy of various stylistic features, especially emphasized is the Ruzica Citadel, one of the largest medieval fortification complexes in Croatia created toward the end of the 14th and at the beginning of the 15th century. The results of an analysis of culturohistorical resources of the City of Orahovica direct toward a conclusion that the authenticity of destinations based on a culturohistorical heritage of the City of Orahovica represents a solid tourist attraction basis, whereby a tourist valorization of culturohistorical artefacts and localities should be based upon a sustainable management of cultural resources as the realistic or potential cultural attractions and an efficacious coordination of all the factors comprising a cultural offer spectrum of the City of Orahovica as a cultural tourist destination.