Rural areas in Macedonia as tourism supply: Problem or a challenge?

Petrevska, Biljana and Dimitrov, Nikola and Terzić, Aleksandra (2019) Rural areas in Macedonia as tourism supply: Problem or a challenge? In: Geobalcanica 2019, 15-16 June 2019, Sofia, Bulgaria.

[thumbnail of Rural areas in Macedonia as tourism supplu_Problem or a chalenge.pdf]
Preview
Text
Rural areas in Macedonia as tourism supplu_Problem or a chalenge.pdf

Download (1MB) | Preview

Abstract

The fact that Macedonia has unique and well-preserved natural resources, large number of traditional rural households and much supplementary potential, imposes great future challenges towards rural tourism development. Moreover, due to ever-growing interest of international market in rural lifestyle, rural tourism sounds like inevitable alternative for economic development. The paper uses a qualitative approach to illustrate the ambient for development of tourism in rural areas in Macedonia. In this respect, the research outlines the current possibilities seriously to consider rural areas to be added to the current tourism supply in Macedonia, by highlighting the barriers of rural tourism from a perspective of a problem or a challenge. The paper points out that Macedonia needs to undertake serious measures and activities on central and local level for incorporating many rural areas in enriching tourism supply and boosting modest tourism development.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords: Limitations; Rural areas; Tourism development
Subjects: Social Sciences > Other social sciences
Social Sciences > Social and economic geography
Divisions: Faculty of Tourism and Business Logistics
Depositing User: Biljana Petrevska
Date Deposited: 16 Sep 2019 07:00
Last Modified: 16 Sep 2019 07:00
URI: https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/id/eprint/22482

Actions (login required)

View Item View Item