<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The former role of tourism in terms of provision of accommodation and food has become outdated. Tourist offer increasingly includes additional activities, such as visits to various tangible and intangible cultural sites, and events that tourists perceive visually. In the contemporary tourism trends, cultural resources of Southeast European countries have become an important factor that maintains the competitiveness under conditions of the growing competition on a world scale. Cultural resources directly affect tourism, but there is also an inverse relationship reflected in the impact of tourism on cultural resources that are becoming an important factor for the choice of tourist destinations. The subject of this paper is to review the contribution of cultural resources to the development of tourist destinations with the help of the analysis of elements of Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index - TTCI.</p></abstract>

The former role of tourism in terms of provision of accommodation and food has become outdated. Tourist offer increasingly includes additional activities, such as visits to various tangible and intangible cultural sites, and events that tourists perceive visually. In the contemporary tourism trends, cultural resources of Southeast European countries have become an important factor that maintains the competitiveness under conditions of the growing competition on a world scale. Cultural resources directly affect tourism, but there is also an inverse relationship reflected in the impact of tourism on cultural resources that are becoming an important factor for the choice of tourist destinations. The subject of this paper is to review the contribution of cultural resources to the development of tourist destinations with the help of the analysis of elements of Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index - TTCI.

Analysis of Cultural Resources of Southeast European Countries as a Factor of Tourism Competitiveness

University of Niš, Faculty of Economics, Serbia

PhD student, University of Niš, Faculty of Economics, Serbia

Economic Themes

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The former role of tourism in terms of provision of accommodation and food has become outdated. Tourist offer increasingly includes additional activities, such...

Analysis of Cultural Resources of Southeast European Countries as a Factor of Tourism Competitiveness

Published Online: Apr 15, 2016

Page range: 230 - 246

Received: Nov 20, 2014

Accepted: Mar 27, 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ethemes-2015-0013

Keywords
cultural resources, competitiveness, tourism, TTCI, the Southeast European countries

© 2016

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Analysis of Cultural Resources of Southeast European Countries as a Factor of Tourism Competitiveness

Published Online: Apr 15, 2016

Page range: 230 - 246

Received: Nov 20, 2014

Accepted: Mar 27, 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ethemes-2015-0013

Keywordscultural resources, competitiveness, tourism, TTCI, the Southeast European countries

© 2016

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
cultural resources, competitiveness, tourism, TTCI, the Southeast European countries