Prerequisites of Sustainable Development of Rural Tourism in Continental Croatia
The goal of this paper was to analyze the current status of rural tourism in Croatia and to identify possibilities, guidelines and methods of its sustainable development. The research has shown that rural tourism in Croatia falls behind the sun-and-beach holiday tourism in coastal Croatia and that n...
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| author | Bartoluci Mato Hendija Zvjezdana Petračić Mateja |
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| description | The goal of this paper was to analyze the current status of rural tourism in Croatia and to identify possibilities, guidelines and methods of its sustainable development. The research has shown that rural tourism in Croatia falls behind the sun-and-beach holiday tourism in coastal Croatia and that numerous and diverse natural and social resources in Continental Croatia are insufficiently employed, especially in the Continental part of the country Past research of rural tourism in continental Croatia relied on individual entrepreneurial initiative and scarce funding resources, so that consequently a heterogeneous and fragmented rural tourism offer, based on various tourism forms and special interest tourism types, has developed in an unorganized way. However, rural tourism can become a driving force for the development of rural areas, taking into account the concept of sustainable development, based on the balance of economic, ecological and social responsibility. In the future, it should encourage development projects that ensure integrated tourist offer and thereby enable long-term sustainable development of rural tourism in continental Croatia. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1596ddc089294e58a81e7fa0d109ff742022-12-21T16:43:12ZengLibertas međunarodno sveučilišteActa Economica et Turistica1849-921X2016-09-0121294510.1515/aet-2016-0003aet-2016-0003Prerequisites of Sustainable Development of Rural Tourism in Continental CroatiaBartoluci Mato0Hendija Zvjezdana1Petračić Mateja2PhD, Full Professor; Faculty of Economics and Business – ZagrebPhD, Associate Professor; Faculty of Economics and Business – ZagrebGraduate oec., lecturer, Karlovac University of Applied SciencesThe goal of this paper was to analyze the current status of rural tourism in Croatia and to identify possibilities, guidelines and methods of its sustainable development. The research has shown that rural tourism in Croatia falls behind the sun-and-beach holiday tourism in coastal Croatia and that numerous and diverse natural and social resources in Continental Croatia are insufficiently employed, especially in the Continental part of the country Past research of rural tourism in continental Croatia relied on individual entrepreneurial initiative and scarce funding resources, so that consequently a heterogeneous and fragmented rural tourism offer, based on various tourism forms and special interest tourism types, has developed in an unorganized way. However, rural tourism can become a driving force for the development of rural areas, taking into account the concept of sustainable development, based on the balance of economic, ecological and social responsibility. In the future, it should encourage development projects that ensure integrated tourist offer and thereby enable long-term sustainable development of rural tourism in continental Croatia.https://doi.org/10.1515/aet-2016-0003sustainable rural tourism developmentspecial interest tourismintegrated tourist offercontinental croatia |
| spellingShingle | Bartoluci Mato Hendija Zvjezdana Petračić Mateja Prerequisites of Sustainable Development of Rural Tourism in Continental Croatia Acta Economica et Turistica sustainable rural tourism development special interest tourism integrated tourist offer continental croatia |
| title | Prerequisites of Sustainable Development of Rural Tourism in Continental Croatia |
| title_full | Prerequisites of Sustainable Development of Rural Tourism in Continental Croatia |
| title_fullStr | Prerequisites of Sustainable Development of Rural Tourism in Continental Croatia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Prerequisites of Sustainable Development of Rural Tourism in Continental Croatia |
| title_short | Prerequisites of Sustainable Development of Rural Tourism in Continental Croatia |
| title_sort | prerequisites of sustainable development of rural tourism in continental croatia |
| topic | sustainable rural tourism development special interest tourism integrated tourist offer continental croatia |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1515/aet-2016-0003 |
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