Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.20867/thm.14.2.2
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION – KEY PREREQUISITE FOR SUSTAINABLE TOURISM ON THE MEDITERRANEAN
Dobrica Jovicic
; The Geographical Faculty, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Vanja Ivanovic
; Faculty of tourism and hospitality management, University of Rijeka, Opatija, Croatia
Abstract
The Mediterranean is grown up as one of the most developed tourist regions on the Earth, but development of mass tourism brought to the big saturation of space, causing environmental problems. As a consequence, today the Mediterranean is faced with a great challenge: how to preserve natural and cultural values as a basis for tourism industry and, in the same time, to keep high reputation on the globalized tourist
market. In this work are analyzed the environmental effects of tourism and problems aggravating the concept of the sustainable development. There are also shown the key measures, that can enable development of tourism on a sustainable basis. Particular attention is dedicated to institutional and organizational factors having a crucial role in defining guidelines related to protection and sustainable usage of the Mediterranean Sea with its coastal area.
Keywords
Mediterranean; environmental protection; sustainable tourism
Hrčak ID:
181027
URI
Publication date:
30.12.2008.
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