What Happened? What Will Be? - A Path-Dependency Analysis of Donated Tourism Projects in South East Europe

Abstract

Theoretical background: It is believed that term “Balkanisation” was used for the first time in 1860-tiesby English colonial aspirants to describe socio-economic development status of permanently dividedSudan, and, of course, that being a base for foreign intervention that would bring a peace, prosperityand democracy for local tribes once reconciled. Now, the Balkans are said to be the region underpermanent institutional reconstruction. The term “path-dependence” means "history matters“ whichreduces simply to "everything has causes" (Pierson 2004:web). So, the purposes of this paper is todescribe path-dependency expected perspectives, once it comes to understanding current situation inhow do residents of post-conflict areas communicate.Methods: International donor organised for a certain tourism development projects implementation inthe Eastern Western Balkans. This paper is organised from the perspective of foreign researcher -bricoleur, as a triangulation of a field data in order to justify both: the evaluations and the conclusions.Results, findings: Communicological analysis of field action research cases of tourist programs donatedby international community, based on path-dependency expectations, indicates that whenever one hassituation of aid-receiver communicating internally in a way of dealing with intrasocial re-distribution ofnational wealth, a interest in tourist projects economically connoted is infinitesimal. Probably, as long asit takes until perceived gains of such “internal” projects are higher in comparison to “external” benefits.