Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.20867/thm.12.2.12
PLANNING CITY TOURISM DEVELOPMENT: PRINCIPLES AND ISSUES
Dora Smolčić Jurdana
; Faculty of tourism and hospitality management, University of Rijeka, Opatija, Croatia
Zrinka Sušilović
; Faculty of tourism and hospitality management, University of Rijeka, Opatija, Croatia
Abstract
Contemporary trends on the world tourism market show that the number of tourists attracted by the cities in growing. Urban tourism is a growing tourism market and especially are attractive the cities in Europe. The cities as an important tourist destinations came of age during 1980s. The local governments came to recognize that tourism could have a role in urban economic development. The invisibility of tourism
in cities partly arises from the fact that many facilities are used both by residents and visitors. Improving these facilities therefore provides benefits for local residents as well as assisting the promotion of tourism.
City tourism development plan should be prepared as an integral part of global economic and social development plan of the city, with the main aim to integrate the tourism in existing urban economic development, and at the same time to prevent conflict situations. Tourism development in the city needs a network and cooperative relationships between local government, tourist organization, tourist agencies and
different organizations/institutions in the city; public-private partnership is a must.
In the paper are analyzed the main attributes, principles and goals of the tourism in the cities.
Keywords
tourism planing; city tourism development
Hrčak ID:
181232
URI
Publication date:
30.12.2006.
Visits: 6.712 *