Literary tourism in the municipality of Šentjur

Občina Šentjur, ki po svoji velikosti spada med večje slovenske občine, je mnogim zagotovo še neodkrita in nedotaknjena destinacija. Šentjur se lahko pohvali z izjemno turistično ponudbo, predvsem na osnovi kulturnega turizma. Razvijanje literarnega turizma pa je šele v zametkih kljub znanim osebnostim: dinastije Ipavec, škofa blaženega Antona Martina Slomška, kozjanskega razbojnika Guzaja ter mnogih drugih znanih osebnosti. Že pokojni Daniel Artiček je o tej širši javnosti še neprepoznavni deželi spisal precej literarnih del, ki bi v prihodnosti lahko bile povod za bolj intenzivno razvijanje literarnega turizma v občini ter tako vsem obiskovalcem pričarale petzvezdično doživetje. Vsebina diplomskega dela se prepleta s kulturnim turizmom, kamor umeščamo literarni turizem, ki bi se lahko na destinaciji začel razvijati tudi na osnovi dediščine relativno slabo poznanega avtorja Daniela Artička, ki pa se je že nekaj let nazaj zavedal pomena literarnega turizma. Z diplomskim delom smo želeli raziskati njegovo prepoznavnost v regiji in poudariti njegovo vlogo pri razvoju literarnega turizma.The municipality of Šentjur, which is by its size definitely one of the largest Slovene municipalities, is one of the most underrated tourist destinations in Slovenia. But surely it can boast with exceptional tourist offer, mainly on the basis of cultural tourism. The development of literary tourism is definitely still in the beginning despite the known writers, the Ipavec family, bishop Beatified Anton Martin Slomšek, the region of Kozjansko thief Guzaj and many other well-known personalities. Daniel Artiček is not well known in Slovenia but he is very important for people in this region because of his works, which in the future may be one of the reasons for the development of literary tourism in the municipality, and so all visitors could experience five stars experience. The contents of the thesis encompasses the phenomenon of cultural tourism, the growing recognition and expression of literary tourism, and the presentation of the little known author Daniel Artiček, who was already a few years back aware of the importance of literary tourism. With the thesis we wanted to research and emphasize his role in the literary tourism development in the local area