A PUBLICLY ORGANIZED SMALL SCALE FESTIVAL TOURISM: WHY DO PEOPLE COME AND WHERE DO THEY SPEND?

Festivals play important roles for development and promotion of the communities. In this study, participants’ expenditure is investigated at publicly organized small scale festival where is, one of the most famous Thracians, Georgios Vizyenos’s home town – Vize / Kirklareli. In this study, the relationships between socio-demographics and expenditure level of visitors who participated in “Vize History and Culture Festival” is analyzed. The findings reveal that there is a relation between socio-demographics, and expenditure level of visitors.