Broadcasting function of the excursion as a cultural narrative

The article delves into the analysis of the broadcasting function of the excursion, considered within the framework of an interdisciplinary approach as a cultural narrative. The relevance of the study is due to the expansion of the functions of the excursion beyond the scope of educational and outreach activities. As part of the narrative approach, the excursion acts as a broadcaster of historical and cultural memory based on a specially constructed narrative. Research methodology is based on the peculiarities of the nature of narration in the context of A. Toynbee’s concept of “narrative history”. The understanding of history proposed in this concept as a completed process that needs interpretation brings the excursion story closer to the narrative. The work analyzes the main views on the essence of excursion and narrative, which allows to draw a conclusion about their related nature, as well as to derive a special excursion narrative, understood as a narrative consisting of a number of sequentially presented historical facts and events and their interpretations on the basis of political, cultural, economic, educational and other contexts. It is emphasized that the broadcasting function of an excursion as a narrative is manifested in the possibility of immersion in a certain era or event, contact with the past, and its comprehension.