Regional development through the use of the potentials for rural tourism
Regional development through the use of the potentials for rural tourism

Summary/Abstract: All across the world rural areas face serious issues of economic and demographical change. Rural tourism is seen as potential source of social, economic, cultural and environmental benefits for rural areas. The tourism activity can create growth potentials for rural areas; it can provide income for local businesses, help to protect the traditional values and the community assets and help to sustain local services. The present paper explores the potentials and economic possibilities of rural tourism in view of regional development and it evaluates weather rural tourism can be the driving factor in integrated sustainable development especially for the so called less favored/ developed areas. The first part of the paper approaches a study of the particularities of rural areas in the context of defining the concept rural tourism, while the second one presents the potentials of rural tourism in light of regional development in the Republic of Macedonia. The second part includes a detailed analysis of the projects for rural tourism financed through the Bureau for Regional Development of Republic of Macedonia, as a main operational capacity in the implementation of regional policy in the country.

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