Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.20867/thm.9.2.3
SPATIAL DIVERSITIES AS STARTING POINTS IN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND TOURISM REGIONALISATION
Branko Blažević
orcid.org/0000-0002-7615-9136
; Faculty of tourism and hospitality management, University of Rijeka, Opatija, Croatia
Abstract
In this paper the author examines spatial diversities as starting points in regional development. Through the vital process of delocalising spatial content, regions are viewed without their fixed boundaries. Using this same principle, the author seeks to define tourist regions in the sense of subsystems of regional economics as an academic discipline, implying crucial interregional relations and the process of delocalisation. The tourist region is considered a subsystem of Croatia as a tourist region, as well as a subsystem of the Croatian economic system. Regional tourism policies as part of the framework of economic policies call for a unique approach. According to the systems theory, this refers to the subsystem of Croatian tourism policies and to the subsystem of regional economic policies. In dealing with tourist regions, the authors favours the theory of balanced growth in all cases lacking appropriately elaborated development concepts and strategies, and clearly defined development visions and objectives. The author also speaks in favour of the theory of forceful strike wherever there is a clearly developed vision together with the essential development documents.
Keywords
regional economics; regionalisation; tourist region; tourist destination
Hrčak ID:
181466
URI
Publication date:
30.12.2003.
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