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Abstract
The new age creates the possibility that the social, material and spiritual
living conditions needs of all people are developing optimally by their quantity and
quality. A wide spread theoretical opinion is that tourism activity already has a
special treatment, because as a necessary and generally segment of a life of
contemporary man it is considered as a factor of development of the entire
economy and society. Unfavorable economic trends in the last years of the
twentieth century affected the tourist economy of Serbia, which after years of
relative success experienced a decline. This paper, in a concise way, emphasizes
the importance of tourism in the process of stimulating or activating the working
age population of the Southern Backa District. Among other things, the aim is to
highlight the fact that tourism is an economic sector, that will contribute faster
growth of entire country economy.