Zone Turism

By Irena Pivka and Brane Zorman

Collaborators: Marjeta Doupona Horvat, Aldo Milohnić and anonymous sources
Design: Sonia Pust AJAX
Translation of audio interviews: Polona Mertelj in Finbar Barry Omahonay
Production: Maska Ljubljana, 2005

The project Zone TOURISM is an hour-long journey, a drive with a tourist bus equipped to function as a multimedia gallery. Guests will be treated as a group of tourists on a package tour. Throughout the journey they will be offered refreshments and shown a documentary video Zone TOURISM.

The project Zone TOURISM portrays illegal migration organizers, drivers and guides of illegal migrants who with their stories throw light upon the phenomenon of illegal border crossings and upon relations (local citizens towards foreigners, media responses, state institutions and their statements, etc) that develop in such situations. Representations from the opposing side explain the official state policy surrounding this problem.

The project Zone TOURISM raises the question if organized illegal people trafficking is an internationally organized crime or a humanitarian organization.

The Zone TOURISM is a project, which examines workers in the tourist industry and their clients.