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Abstract
Tourist activity aligns among the most dynamic and most propulsive
economic branches, with multiple effects. It implies tourism's strong movable
function in wide spectrum of activities. Among more significant characteristics of
modern tourist demand, important for tourism development in rural areas,
definitely inserts an observation that the demand enlarges towards non-urban rural
and protected natural regions, mountains, spas and villages with more significant
healthy-recreational and cultural-historical values. Parallel with that increase
requirements for ecological quality and healthy-recreational function of receptive
spaces, which must be appropriate for moving, recreation and possibility for
applying chosen activities.
Therefore, sustainable tourism should make optimal utilization of
surrounding natural resources, sustaining important ecological processes and
supporting preservation of heritage and biodiversity, while socio-cultural
authentication of specific community/household protects their cultural inheritance
and traditional values and contributes to understanding and tolerance of other
cultures.