<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Rural tourism represents the tourism in rural households, as well as holidays and stays in rural areas, events, festivals, recreations, productions and sales of handicrafts, crafts and agricultural products. Rural tourism is especially suitable for the revitalisation of degraded rural areas, ensuring their sustainability in the future, through creating new work places, increasing the diversity of occupations, rural crafts, and also preserving the landscape and nature. The development of rural tourism of the Republic of Serbia could play an important role in the country’s rural development and economic development in general. Thanks to its diverse relief and preserved nature, Serbia has significant resources in rural tourism at its disposal, but the number of negative factors that prevent more intensive growth of this economic branch is not negligible at all. One of the most important problems, but not unsolvable one, is the extinction of rural settlements in Serbia.</p></abstract>

Rural tourism represents the tourism in rural households, as well as holidays and stays in rural areas, events, festivals, recreations, productions and sales of handicrafts, crafts and agricultural products. Rural tourism is especially suitable for the revitalisation of degraded rural areas, ensuring their sustainability in the future, through creating new work places, increasing the diversity of occupations, rural crafts, and also preserving the landscape and nature. The development of rural tourism of the Republic of Serbia could play an important role in the country’s rural development and economic development in general. Thanks to its diverse relief and preserved nature, Serbia has significant resources in rural tourism at its disposal, but the number of negative factors that prevent more intensive growth of this economic branch is not negligible at all. One of the most important problems, but not unsolvable one, is the extinction of rural settlements in Serbia.

Perspectives of Development of Rural Tourism of the Republic of Serbia

Economic Themes

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Rural tourism represents the tourism in rural households, as well as holidays and stays in rural areas, events, festivals, recreations, productions and sales...

Perspectives of Development of Rural Tourism of the Republic of Serbia

Publié en ligne: 04 mai 2020

Pages: 219 - 232

Reçu: 20 mars 2019

Accepté: 30 mai 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ethemes-2019-0013

Mots clés
rural tourism, village, sustainable tourism, rural area

© 2019 Dejan Ž. Đorđević et al., published by Sciendo

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

Perspectives of Development of Rural Tourism of the Republic of Serbia

Publié en ligne: 04 mai 2020

Pages: 219 - 232

Reçu: 20 mars 2019

Accepté: 30 mai 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ethemes-2019-0013

Mots clésrural tourism, village, sustainable tourism, rural area

© 2019 Dejan Ž. Đorđević et al., published by Sciendo

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

Mots clés
rural tourism, village, sustainable tourism, rural area