Constructing a Protected Area as an Adventurescape: The Case of Slovenia’s Triglav National Park

Authors

• Saša Poljak Istenič, PhD Institute of Slovenian Ethnology, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
• Miha Kozorog, PhD Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Ljubljana

Abstract

This article explores perceptions and representations of a protected area as an “adventurescape,” as expressed by various social groups, and analyses how such perceptions are instrumentalized, mostly by the tourism industry, to ease environmental restrictions at a sensitive time when legislation regarding the protection of “natural environments” in Slovenia (ZON 1999), and Triglav National Park (TNP) in particular (TNP Management Plan 2012), is being modified and jointly constructed.