DEVELOPING SUSTAINABLE TOURISM IN THE NATIONAL PARK GALICICA

Risteski, Michael and Kocevski, Jordan (2015) DEVELOPING SUSTAINABLE TOURISM IN THE NATIONAL PARK GALICICA. Published in International Scientific Conference Proceedings, ISBN 978-954-411-220-2, pp.209-216.

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Abstract

Contemporary tourism development shows a shift of tourism demand towards highly specialized and sustainable tourism forms. This arises from the expanding environmental awareness among tourists and providers of tourism services during the last decade. Tourism destinations become more and more oriented towards attracting tourists who pursuit services and products of higher quality. On the other hand, destinations tend to facilitate the protection of natural and cultural tourism resources from excessive exploitation and devastation that arises from the saturation during a concentrated and relatively short tourism season. That can only be achieved through diverting the strategic developmental directions of tourism from the traditional "mass-tourism" forms towards new and more sustainable types of tourism. Such an example is the region of the National Park "Galicica" in the Ohrid area in the Republic of Macedonia. This region represents the most developed tourism region in the country with numerous quality natural and cultural resources concentrated on a relatively small area as well as the highest number of registered tourists' visits. Therefore, a real threat exists from the tourists that visit the region themselves, as well as the actions from the tourism offer to satisfy their needs. One of these tourism types that are based on sustainable development and that show great potential for development in this region represents geo-tourism. This type of tourism can be a great opportunity for developing a quality tourism brand.

Keywords: Sustainable tourism, tourism development, geotourism, national parks, geo-parks.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	Scientific Fields (Frascati) > Social Sciences > Other social sciences
Divisions:	Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality
Depositing User:	Mr Bojan Sekulovski
Date Deposited:	18 Dec 2017 09:59
Last Modified:	18 Dec 2017 09:59
URI:	https://eprints.uklo.edu.mk/id/eprint/1089

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